The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-23
4 TIGERS FIGHT FoR LIFE.
a Thrilling story OF n contest In Singapore
JunGlcs.

JunElcs.
From the Straits Times.
To the Editor of the Straits Timcs-SIR:
With reference to your account In Mondays
paper of the shooting of n tiger at Tampenis by
myself you would make 1t appear that Mcssrs.
Nav and Owens heaters simply put out the
beast, and it was at once shot dead by Mr..
Owen. This, however, conveys anything but n
fair account Of what really happened, and, in
fairness to another sportsman. who was very
much more Gin at the death" than myself. l
shall feel obliged by your giving your readers
tho following account of the shoot.
For weeks past, the manager Of the Clear
Water Dairy Farm Mt Tampcnis has been anx-
ious to get rid OF n tiger which had taken up its
abode in tho junglcs between Changio and the
farm and had taken Off three OF his calves dur
ing the past three weeks. Knowing the tiger
TO be paying periodical visits to the farm. / left
a couple of my crackers at Tampcnis to keep q
lookout for him, and whenever they tracked
him into anything like a beatable bit of jungle
to let me know, and Mr.. Nav and myself held
ourselves in readiness to go out at n moments
notice. This led to our paying frequent visits
to Tampenis within the last fortnight with n
view to beating him out of junglcs into which
my men had tracked him. but he invariably
managed either to sneak away without being
seen or lie up in some impenetrable jungle.
On Sunday he was tracked into a small strip
OF jungle quite close to the Talnpcnis road off the
seven and q half milestone. We beat this
Jungle with the result that we put him out.
| evadc the guns. We. however. saw the place
he broke cover and the direction he was NOV
iGbE in k cn9 o ., he Si mMst ow move Mn into MAI jungle nnG
myself ran to he opposite side of the Jungle in
order to cut him Off before he got through. tell
ing the beaiera Mt the same time TO follow the
footprints Of the tiger and beat him out to
where we were going to take up our positions.
hours beating the tiger broke cover in front of
my, position, and having got clear of tho Jungle
n ,ffil tf Fcrn sad a9 IaIIsn a q W3tbert or b",n mile es In f no
bare sandy patches some 100 yards to my'right.
moving in the direction of the second. which
was a few yards nearer to where / was stand.
then / put two into him from my .577 express
riie.one. u body shot. the other breaking his
hind leg in q most CHASTITY fashion, completely
shatterin2 the bone to
In spite OF this he managed to get away, and
by following up the blood tracks. which were
him into another jungle behind where was
STANDING: Taking i for granted that he would
Nav and myself ran to the opposite side of this
Jungle to again head him, and instructed the
put him out. Up till now nothing very thrill
Ing had taken place, although ones feelings
were, not OF the plcasantcst when following up
the blood trail through thick underground. not
toy, OF him,
Now. It h9ppened that another party of
were beating this piece Of jungle into which the
shots and knowing that we were heating for the
tiger, stopTed their beat for pig md took up posi-.
In their direction. which happened to be the
case, for one OF their trackers had two shots at
him and Mr.. Hicnerwadel got one at about
the direction OF n bit Of swamp about half a
Mr.. H~ienerwadei's dogs. Mr.. Hionerwadol
pushed his way through about 200 yards OF
Of the wounded beast: when he put a shot into
him from n 300 Winchester repeater. The
tiger then moved on n little further and Mr.. IT.
followed. him; in doing 30 he got his feet en-
ishment found himself within two yards Of the
tiger. He thGn fired four shots In quick succe :
sion. and as Mr.. II. expresses 1t she received
every bullet with n tremendous roar" Mr.. IT,.
then climbed nn q tree and called to his men to
bring his second gun.
Mr., HIS a.cconnt'of rhe last moments Of the
cether again and went on. hut the dogs were so
keen that they did not allow him to 90 further
than three or four Yards ut n time. ] am really
astonished at the pluck these pariahs displayed
manner tho tiger moved for about twenty or
thirty yards. when he Law down. making a Bplen-
did. struggle for life, hitting in all directions
with his paws with apparently considerable
force, II was n splendid picture and IL rare one
10 witness. Whom ! got my second gun ! went
closer to him and gave him two more bullets.
Thus ended, the career OF q fine, ,well-condi-
all the tail only accounting for 2 feet o inches
feet 2 inches. am, &c, G.. =. OwES.
SINGAPORE. Dec. ..