The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-05-20
A Man-Eating Tigress.

For more than year past man'eat-
inc tigrcss has been the terror and
scourgc of small tract Of hill country
in Western Carnival, which looks down
across the Ganges upon the sacred
shrine of RikhikcSh. From first to last
she is said TO have killed between fifty
and sixty human beings, A considers
bly, higher estimate, indeed, is current
in the neighborhood.
Last year she became proclaimed
offender, and 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 environments, particularly
when il is considered that her haunts
were within two marches of 50 we'll
known and accessible place as Hurd-
war Such attempts, however, as were
made to circumyent her, whether on the
part of forest hunters and others, or ma
lives, 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 APP
proaches; then, dashing in among them
she would pick off her victim, and in
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-cutting
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
cudgeled her off the friend she seized
by his side with a ldthi; and in another
instance she abandoned her prey, owing
to the lucky circumstances of u mouth
full 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 eases was a par
ticularly painful one. A peasants wife
objected to 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 ac-
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 her; cat
lie she never killed. to elephants her
haunts were inaccessible, and ii seemed
clear that if she were ever destroyed it
would be off the corpse of n human being,
or the carcass Of 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 twoacross the river, when as custom
airy, the tigress killed again another
woman. They started for the spot in
the afternoon, four of themgoing along
the hillside in advance, while the rest of
the party kept along the nullah; the IT,
gress, startled by the latter. broke in
front of the former, and, luckily having
her back broken by the first shot of the
vollcy fired at her, succumbed without
a struggle. Not only was the tigress
apparently killed off the body, but some
Of the victinl's fingers were found in her
stomach