The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-27
TIE END OF A NAVIGATING
TIGRESS.
She Played with Her Human Victims
IS a Cat Plays With Mouse.
Eon, the Times of India.

cha PLAYED With Her Human Victims
Is cat Plays With a Mouse.
Fiom the Times of India.
The celebrated Jounsar man-eating
.;vress has met her deserts at last under
~. most thrilling circumstances. This
.i,ress. with her family of two or three,
tss haunted the Jounsar forest, a few miles
.,-rh of Chakrata, for the last ten years
A. more, and numerous are the victims
,sst have fallen to their Unsuitable craving
t,- human flesh. For years past it has
-, considered unsafe for solitary persons
- travel over the hills she frequented; and
SO nelghboring hillmen invariably went
sbout in large parties, and never except In
broad daylight Such was the terror this
b-ute had inspired far and wide. With the
;rcantive of a government reward of Rs. 500
saveral attempts had been made from time
~ time to destroy the uncanny brood aud
ia an otherwise charming country of her
Dastilential presence. But, though one or
Two tigers have been shot in the district,
The real man-eater and arch fiend hersel
tyas never met with, aud she carried on her
man-saughterlng propensities with impun-
itv til a few days ago. OF the many blood
c1rding and st ange stories told of her
misdeeds. perhaps the following bears the
terror it conveys TO the peace-loving DOM
este mind:
Some X years ago she was seen with two
vounc cubs. VINO seem TO have been chief v
J,,oueht no on human flesh, from the num-
her IF the killed and missing heard of in
those DAYS. About the same time a small
gang of Punjabi sawyers, who had been
Maid I'D by tue Forest department and were
making their way home through the hills,
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the tigre,ss beat, though previously to that
she had not been heard Of for some weeks.
After long and tiresome march they had
safely reached the chowkey, at Loquar in
.Iounsar before the evening sun had set
After an early meal they all retired togeth-
er for greater safety to grass and waffle
shed in the compound. The forest chowkey
here Is situated near lonely and densely
wooded glen, where, even without the
dreaded tigress, the situation conveyed an
eere and utterly abando ed feeling to the
casual stranger who happened to have the
misfortune to pass the night there. With
the tigress about, nobody could be got to
say, aud the forest chowkidar lived some
miles off in neighboring village.
It was early in the evening, say or 10
CLOCK, when the occupants of the hut were
suddenly aroused by the death cries of one
Of their comrades, who was being forcibly
dragged out by his heels through an open
IN in the grass and waffle side of the hut.
They all rushed out, and to their disn Nv
AID horror saw the man-eater of the hills
calmly carrying off their unfortunate
friend to tie bed Of stream a short dis.
lance below, from which direction two
young cubs wero now distinctly seen ad.
vancing. The sawyers had no weapons
with them, yet they made bold attempt
to effect rescue. They followed aud
yelled, threw stones and fourished fire.
brands in her face, but she never relin-
pushed her hold till she reached the cubs.
Then suddenly dropping the now uncon-
scious man, she turned savagely and scat
tered her pursuers. After this, thinking
their late comrade dead and beyond human
aid, they considered discretion the better
part of valor, and Immediately Swarmed I'D
the nearest trees. Here they Intended to
walt patiently tor daylight. 1t was a soft
summer night, with scattered feecy clouds
about, which occasionally obscured the
otherwise brilliant moon-lit scene beneath
The men had not been long in their cogn
of vantage when they were made the I'M
willing witnesses Of most CHASTITY tragedy
The tigress went back after charging, aud
stood over the poStrate form of her victim,
and purred in a cat-Iike, self-complaceuu
way to her cubs, who were romping about
and rolling over the apparently lifeles,
body. She then lay down few yards off,
and with blinking eyes watched the gam
oois OF her young progeny, Somehow the
watchers In the Il ees thought they saw the
body move. YES, the man was still alive.
andln few moment up sat and tried to beat
the young brutes off. They were too young
to hold him down, so he made a desperate
attempt to shake himself free, and started
off at run. But before the poor man had
gone twenty yards the tigress bounded out.
aud brought him back to the cubs once
more. AAd the doomed wretch had to de-
TEND himself over again from their playful
but rough attacks. He made two or three
more attempts to regain his freedom. but
was seized by the old tiger and brought
pack each time before be had gone many
yards. His groans and cries for help We're
heartrendlng, but the others on the trees
were paralyZed with fear, and quite unable
TO move. At last the tigresS herself joinei
IN the gambols of her cubs, and the
wretched man was thrown about and tossed
over her head, exactly as many of us have
seen our domestic puss throw rats and mice
about before beginning her meal on them.
Inc mans efforts at escape grew feebler and
1eeoler. The last time they saw him try to
get away was on his hands and knees to-
ward largo fig tree, with the cubs cling
ing to his limbs. His final attempt was as
FUTILE as the rest, as the tigress brought
nun BACK once again, aud then she calmly
neld nm down under her forepaws and de-
hoarately began her living meal before
their eyes, Beyond a few groans thew
heard nothing more-the man had happily
tainted.
IL was this tigress that Mr. Ormaston,
young officer Of the Forest department, has
had the good fortune to Stay under the most
unusual circumstances. The Forest school
students, wao are now out in the district
Oh Jounsar getting practical Instruction
~ lhdlan forestry, happened to be encamped
az Une Forest chowkey of Mundali some
WE'VE or fifteen miles beyond the station
VI Cnakrata. On tho day of their arrival
Sney heard of q buffalo kill close by; but
ooIhg midday, they placed a man on a tree
" keep OF Wi. ures aud crows, and intended
!eVurnlng themselves later III the eveniag
W slV up Tor the tigres. Long before
IIe appointed time, Mr.. Ormas5on and Mr.
iauSard, the la ter student in the Forest
scuooi' saw their watcher running franl-
Cally back toward the camp. On question
aug nm they fouad he had just seen the
HSiser coming up the ravine toward the kill
lucy Immediately took up their rifles and
vent on IN search. Keeping fifteen or
.%enty yards apart, they walked rapidly
VI But they had not proceeded far when,
"lthout the slightest warning Mr. Ormas-
Ioh, who was below heard a groan. and
saw Mr. Hansard suddenly borne down to
JUG ground, with the tiger on his back. He
was taken unawares, and it was a critical
tllofnent, but he stood his ground and kept
us nerve. and in the NEXT momant a 10.