Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-11-02
FIGHTING a Tiger.
IN Indian Police Officer Saves His Life bv
Excellent Shot.

Inc lucky nero OF TINS adventure is
a district superintendent of police in
Berar. He is well remembered in
Secunderabad rs superintendent of the
Cantonment police before Mr. Craw.
ford. A son of Colonel Hastings
Fraser, one of the Frasers of Lovatt.
he has proved his possession of that
nerve and courage which rises to the
emergency of danger-on which quail
tiles more than all else the British
Empire in India has been built, and on
which, after all is said, in the last re-
Sort it must still be held to rest. To
quote the graphic account of a CORE
spondent, the escape was about as mar
row as man ever had. Mr.. Fraser
was told by his orderly that wounded
tiger was lying apparently dead on
the root of a tree. The orderly having
called him up, he went to the spot.
Mr.. Fraser then sent the orderly and
another man with his second gun back,
and knelt down to look just then the
tiger rOared, and came at him from
about eighteen feet off. He waited I'M
!
and fired. AS the tiger did not drop,
he fired his second shot hurriedly. The
first shot had hit exactly in the center
o. the face, but just an inch too low
1t knocked the tigers. right eye out.
and smashed all the teeth of that side
of the jaw. The second shot struck the
tiger in the chest, but too low.
What happened then Mr.. Fraser
does not exactly know, but he next
found himself lying in front of the
tiger, one claw of the beasts right
foot being hooked into his left leg in
this way trying to draw Mr.. Fraser
towards him; the other paw was on his
right leg Mr.. Fraser's chin and coat
were covered with foam from the
beasts mouth. He tried hard to draw
himself out of the tigers clutches
Fortunately the beast was not able to
see him. as Mr.. Fraser was little to one
side of the animal blind side, and the
tigers head was up. Suddenly seeing
Mr.. Frasor's orderly boiling, he
jumped up and went for the man, and
catching him he killed him on the
spot. Mr.. Fraser had lost hat, rifle
and all his cartridges, which had tum-
bled out Of his pocket. He jumped up,
however, and ran to the man who had his
second gun, and to do SO had to go
within eight PAGES of the spot where
the tiger was crouching over his
orderly. He heard, in fact. the crunch
ing of the mans bones, and saw the
tiger biting the back of the head. He
now took the gun from his man. The
latter said that he had fired both
barrels into the tiger-one when he
was crouching over Mr.. Fraser, and
the other when he was over the pros
trate body of the orderly. The man
had fired we'll and true, but just too far
back in his anxiety not to hit the men he
would save instead of the tiger. When
afterward asked if he was not afraid
to hit the Sahib, 81 was very much
afraid indeed he replied, "but dill
mazbut karke Gagaya; nerved myself
for the occasion" "A good man and
true" high officer writes, .'who after
firing, never moved an inch till Mr.
Fraser came to him, although close to
the tiger all the while. He is one of
the Gawilghur Rajputs-a brave race,
Ranjit Singh, good NAME The man
said he had no more cartridges left,
and so they both got little further
from the tiger, as the orderly was evil
IDENTIFY done for. Afterward they found
one more cartridge for the gun and
tried to recover the body, but it was no
use. The tiger was lying close, most
OF the butfaloes had bolted, and the
Kirkpos would not help. Mr.. Fraser
then sent six miles off for an elephant,
but the animal did not arrive till dark,
so Mr.. Fraser went home in great grief
about the poor orderly and at having
to leave the body. His own wound was
bleeding great deal, it being deep
claw cash. Next day they got the
body and the tiger dead, lying close to
each other. Perhaps no narrower es-
cape than Mr.. Fraser's has ever been
heard of. To the excellent shot which |
knocked the beasts eye out he un-
doubtedly owed his life eccan Times.
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