New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-29
A PANTHER KILLED on NORTH MoUyrAp
FARMERS IN SULLIVAN COUNTY. PFyS.. VOW
KNOW WHAT MANGLED THEIR sHEEP.

Scranton Penn. Nov 23.-Many nights this fan tn
screams OF strange wild animal were heard IN various
parts of the forest on North Mountain over In Sullivan
County. One morning last month Leopod Wagner
who lives at the foot Of the west side Of the noun.
tain found two Of his sheep lying dead In field next
TO the woods. Their throats had been torn and one
Of the carcasses partly devoured stephen Schultz end
Byron j. Niles each had three lambs stolen from Their
nastures. On the east side Of the mountain o. \.
Little Henry A. Boles. Darius ID. Hopewell ard j. r.
osterhout had several sheep and lambs killed and when
they told one another about the loss they concluded
that Hhe depredations had all been committed by ne
same wild beast. Subsequently Mr.. Iiopcwell fond
the remains OF two sheep in ravinc mile ard hail
from the clearing and later Mr. Bodies ran across some
sheep bones and mass OF wool between two logs,
mile back in the woods.
Up TO the day after election none Of the resident,
had glimpse OF the destructive animal On that Gay
Marcus Tuttle went into the woods the west side
the mountain to dig ginseng roots AS he was about
to cross gorge. two miles from the clearing he sv
a long bodied animal stretched at full length on ths
trunk of tree that lay across the stream. II.
hurried away, and looking over his shoulder he saw
leap from the log and disappear In the forest The
next night Mr. Schultz lost another sheep. Mr.. Tutts
declared that the beast panther. few days
later Charles Felker caught sight Of ii while he wa
hunting rabbits In the woods, and he said he though
the thing
Early last Tuesday Frank scrambnng, TIE
most daring hunter in the region, set
out to hunt the panther down. nttl.
tracking snow had fallen the night before, and
Scrambling shouldered his Winchester rife and udged
into the woods with provisions enough to last him res
days. In the afternoon he got track Of the panther
and followed 1t till nghtfall He slept In the woods
and some time In the night he heard the panther
screaming of to the south. At daybreak on wednes
day morning Scrambng resumed his hunt Tho
tracks led up and down the mountainsde along ths
top of the mountain and through several ravnes and
when night came the hunter had not got glimpse Of
the beast. He passed the second night in the forest
The snow stayed, and as soon as IT was light %
Thursday he took up the trail again.
Scrambling tramped until nearly noon, when 10
saw the panther for the first time. II was walking
along ledge Of rocks and gazing into deep gucA
below when he spied 1t. Scrambling instantly fired,
and the panther leaped into the air with SCREAM
and went headlong over the ledge. The hunter Ha
to the edge Of the bluff, and fory fifty feet down
he saw the panther tearing in the bushes. Again he
fired, and the panther sprang upward and rolled to the
foot of the bluff where it lay limp and llfeess when
scrambling clambered down. The weary hunter WAS
then eight miles from home. He lngged the panhers
carcass all the way back and hung it up in his ysn
for the losers Of the sheep TO look at. II measured SIX
feet nine inches from TO tail, and weighed loo
pounds.
stuffed and mounted last week by George Frant tho
Lackawanna ave. taxdermst. IL was three feet three
inches long, stood sixteen inches high, and weighed
a male, and in his stomach Mr.. Frant found the fet
and hair OF op0ssum John Shiffer slew the anil.
anal anal fSs II 4e Hu aa Of ne the ws s O
Before it reached the dog Mr. shifer shot il in tho
left side with No. shot and killed IL.