Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-08-19
coming. Perhaps he hns been told you
are here 10 capture him. "

news"
We placed seniinels on the watch when
ready TO turn in, but everything passed
of quietly until about midnight Then
succession OF shrieks and screams and
rosrs brought every man, woman. and
child ont Of sleep with bound. bad
no other thought than that the man
wolf had seized one Of the sentinels, but
as leaped out OF the hut one called TO
me-:
"sahib, you have caught the beast in
your trap
it was mile, rs have told you. from
ihe village TO the spot where we had set
the trap, and yet the screams seemed
close nj hand. When the news went
round that there was no danger the vii
lnpe soon quieted down, but there was
no further sleep for any one. Whether
caught or not, tho creature seemed
fastened to one locality for the re-
maindor OF the night and OF ell pro-
ceedings ever know wild beast to en-
gage in bis was the worst.
lie had voice as strong as lions,
and he was not quiet for two minutes at
a time. He roared, screamed, shrieked.
lamented, end growled, and the wind
brought US every sound He still had a
full head of steam on whom daylight
came, aud after a hasty breakfast party
of twenty OF us moved in bis direction.
He probably heard us coming, for his
anger was freshly aroused and pretty
soon we could hear him tearing at the
bushes
/ am free to say that tho first sight Of
the, man wolf, caught by the hind foot
in the trap, and hanging head downward
from the swAying sapling, took the
cOutage out of me sooner than 1t 1
had met tiger face to face on the path.
He hung about three feet from the earth,
and as lar as he could reach in every
direction he had pulled up the bushes BY
the roots. Ho was as supple as q monkey,
and could double himself up and reach
the trap, but strong as he was be could
not spring the jaws open and release his
foot
There WAS a foot OF chain before he
could get to the rope, and the way he
bit on that chain made us hold our
breath. Had it been OF soft irou L
have no doubt he would have cut 1t IN
two. lie had been caught when we first
heard him scream out, and had been
su,pended for over four hours You
would have thought he would be ex-
hausted with pain and struggling, but he
was NOT As soon as we came near HIM
he made such tremendous efforts TO get
away. or get at u.s. that ell the natives
fed in terror.
We quickly understood that We could
do nothing with the beast until no had
lost his strength and temper, and we re-
turned to the village and left him hang
ing. All that day he yelled out every two
or three minutes, and sIl that night we
heard from him at intervals. On the Sc
cond morning no was still ugly, but late
in the afternoon hunger and peln mas
tered him. We brought mp cage, got
three or four ropes around him, and
finally made him prisoner. HIS foot
and leg were terribly swollen, and he
made but little resistance.
We now had opportunity to look him
over lie was certainly man-woH -
that is, n native child had been carried
off when Young and broughtup with the
wild beasts for twenty years or more.
This creature bad human face and
form. but the body was covered with
coarse hair, the teeth were long, the
hands out OF shape, and he had learned
TO 60 as four-footcd animal. lie was,
Indeed, Notwithstanding sight, but the
worst feature about him was his eyes.
no true wild beast ever saw through q
more ugly pair. There was vlllainou'
sq,lint to them and tho balls seemed tc
DO atisme. We we're congratulating our
selves on his easy capture when the
head man replied:
"Wait a bit Wait until his strength
returns. You will never get him away
from here"
We drew the cage to tho village anC
peye the beast food and water. he readl
lv accepted both, and his conduct was a.
humble as we could desire. He wai
hiding his time. however. On the thirC
dav he minutely examined the construc
ton of the cage and tested every bar
He did this when he thought he Was un
observed. On the fifth day he begaI
to snarl and growl and show hissemPer
and on the sixth we started oil with him.
the cage being dragged by twelve natives
| Everything went well up to noon, whei
We stopped for rest and q bite to eat.
As all were sitting down the man-wol
suddenly sprang out of corner where
he had been sulking, seized bar Will
either hand, and with a tremendous ct
fort wrenched them out One no re
tanned for weapon as he leaped to thu
earth. 1t was so sudden that no one va
prepared. He did not seek escape, bu
revenge. and before We could pick NJ
our guns and open fire lie had killet
three OF the natives and severely wound
ed two others. He was still laying abou
him, screaming with rage, when one o
the white men gave him charge o
buckshot and ended his career. He ha'
struck only single blows, yet each on,
had been hard enough to cripple or kill
But for our guns he would have kille'
Al a.