The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-13
HOW ONE MAN KILLED A MOOSE.
The Exciting Adventure of a New
Hampshire Hunter With Wounded
Animal


Hampshire Hunter With a Wounded
Animal.
From the Pittsfield IN HI Advertiser.
T. G. Lancey arrived home from hunt
ing expedition Monday night with three
fine deer and a magnificent bull moose.
Ben Seward and f. c. Pooler of showke-
gan, who were with him, had three deer
a piece. The moose measures over six feet
in hight, has fine set of antlers and
dressed 700 pounds. Although he doesn't
pretend to be a crack shot or an expert
in hunting big game, Tom Lancey now
has the bulge on all the local hunters
and is the first Pittsfeld man who has
killed a moose within our recollection
The animal is one of the biggest of his
species which has been brought down
from the Moosehead region this year, and
excited much admiration in Bangor and
after he arrived here. But Tom wears his
honors meekly, and modestly refrains
from dwelling on the stirring incidents
attending the big animals capture. The
other members of the party, however
talk freely of them.
The party, it seems, camped for ten
days or so in the vicinity of Spencer bay
on Names principal lake. They found
SOOu 1BOlAs Aoa a must EDJoJdDlt TIME
roughing it, and Monday morning en-
barked on one of the smaller Moosehead
steamers for the foot of the lake, home
ward bound, each having as many deer
as the law allows. As the boat proceeded
down the bay Tom sat upon the deck
cleaning his trusty rifle and meditating
somewhat gioomily upon the fact that he
had only three deer to carry home as the
result of his prowess. Little did he dream
of the startling adventure which he was
destined to figure in within the hour Sud-
denly, as the boat entered the narrow
outlet leading from the bay to the main
lake, a big moose was sighted swimming
across. The steamer was headed for him.
and as ii drew into rife shot Tom leveled
his rifle and fired. The others had by this
time got their rifles out and also opened
fire. AS the moose reached bottom and
broke for the woods, Tom got in another
shot, and the big animal disappeared from
view. 1t was obvious, however, that he
was wounded.
Tom and his companions, as the boat APP
preached the shore and stopped, quickly
launched canoe which was on board and
landed. Tom at once took the trail of the
moose, while the others bore off in an
other direction to head the moose off. The
trail lead into the recesses OF the forest
for half mile, and then turned abruptly
to the left across the point in the direction
Of the main lake. Tom hurried on, intent
on his prey. All at once in thick scrub
growth he sighted the moose very near at
hand. 1t was plainly wounded, but not
MORALLY. The beast turned savagely upon
his pursuer, who, taken somewhat by sur
prise quickly observed the first law of ma
ture and got out of the way. He nimbly
mounted dead tree which stood slightly
leaning close at hand, and was breathless-
ly poised thereon in a safe position by the
time the huge beast paused, baffled and
furious, beneath him. But he had dropped
his rife in his hasty ascent, and the bold
hunter was now unarmed except for his
blood-stained sheath knife. Tom now be-
gan to realize that things were getting Sc
rious. He had heard of the fury of
wounded bull moose, and had listened to
such accounts with Impotence. But now
he thoroughly respected the monarch of
the forest If never before. The furious on
slaughts of the maddened brute began to
tell upon the decaying tree in which he
was perched. 1t might succumb perhaps