The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-05-25
WHOLE No. 1888.
A Man-Eating Tigress.

FOR more than n year past man. eat
ing tigress has been the terror and
scourge of q small tract of hill country
IN Western Carnival which looks down
across the Ganges upon the sacred
shrine of Rikhikesh. From first to last
she is said to have killed between fifty
and sixty human beings A considera-
bly, higher estimate, indeed, is current
in the neighborhood.
Last year she became a proclaimed
offender, and a reward of four hundred
rupees was set upon her head So wide
ly Infamous did she become that it was
somewhat surprising she did not obtain
more attention from the sporting man.
| hood of our cantonments, particularly
| when 1t Is considered that her haunts
were within two marches of so we'll
known and accessible place as Hurd-
war Such attempts, however, as were
made to circumvent her. whether on the
! part of forest hunters and others, or ma
7 tiyes, invariably failed. Her wariness
and activity seemed TO be altogether ex-
traordinary. From some spot on the
hillside she would watch group at
work in the fields, and regularly stalk
| them by careful and circuitous ap-
/ proaches; then, dashing in among them,
| she would pick off her victim. and in a
few seconds be down the side of the Hill
and under covert up another almost be-
| fore his companions had time To look
around. The sound of bamboo-cuttine
was SO well known to attract her that
that industry for the time entirely
ceased within her beat.
OF course occasional failures are re-
corded against her; one plucky fellow
cudgelled her off the friend she seized
by his side with tathi: and in another
instance she abandoned her prey, owing
to the lucky circumstances of mouth
ful of the bamboo bundle on his back
failing to please her taste. But these
were rare exceptions to the monotonous
tale of slaughter.
One OF the very last cases was par
ticularl Y painful one. A peasants wife
objected 10 GO to work in the fields. or
rather cultivated terraces. pleading her
fear of this beast; the husband forced or
persuaded her to go, promising to So
company her and stay near her while
she worked. ShE was carried off before
his eyes.
People on the lookout for this tigress
with firearms could never find herr eat
tie she never killed; to elephants her
haunts were inaccessible, and it seemed |
clear that ii she were ever DESTROYED it
would be OFF the corpse ofa human being,
or the carcass of 9 langur, the only AMI |
nal besides man on which she was |
known to prey. And so it turned out. /
About fortnight ago the Senior Assist
ant Commissioner OF Carnival obtained |
the services of dozen Goorkhas from
the regiment quartered at Dehra; these
plucky little men had only been a day
or two across tbs river when as custom
srs, The ti9ress killed again another
woman. They started for the spot in
the afternoon. four of them going along
the hillside in advance. while the rest Of
the party kept along the nullah, the IL
gress, startled by the latter. broke in
front of the forlner, and. luckily having
soiley Hred az her, Slccumbed wifbont
struggle. Not only was the tlgress
apparently killed off the body. but Some
OF the victims fingers were found in her
stomach. -'A iiei