Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-09-22

the next post of what had occurred.
They had scarcely left the bungalow
when man named Reed arrived there.
He was an American and what the
English call cute Yanke." He had
gone out to India from New York after
tiger skins. Instead of taking rifles
and cartridges, he had taken beartraps.
Landing in Calcutta with no less than
two dozen monster steel traps, he was
making his way up to the tiger coun-
try to do business. He wasn't blow
ing his horn very much, as he knew
that every Englishman in India would
look upon him with contempt, but as
there was no law against trapping
tigers he meant to send home a ship
load of skins il he could.
Reed had no sooner heard Of the
tragedy of the night before than he
baited his trap for his first tiger. He
traced the beast into the jungle for
200 yards and then set one Of his traps
on path and baited it by tying a kid
to stake just in the rear of it. This
was done early in the morning, but
with no hope that the tiger would
leave his liar until late in the evening.
He did leave it, however, much earlier
than that Strangely enough, he con-
tented himself with sinking his fangs
into Sir Edward and killing him, but
did not mutflate the body in the slight
est The bleating of the kid called him
from his lair about o'clock in the aft
eYnoon, and at that same hour the oeaf-
trap man went forth to see If his trap
was all right. As he was advancing
along the path IN one direction the tiger
was coming up from another, and the
result was that as Reed halted within
Ave feet OF the b1eatlng and frightened
kid the tiger looked him in the eyes
from a distance OF about forty feet.
Both stood still and stared for min
ute Reed had a rifle, but he was pocr
shot and dared not take the risk OF FIR
ing. The tiger was no doubt astonish-
ed and puzzled, and perhaps a yell
would have frightened him off, but as
no yell came he began to work up his
temper For two or three minutes he
switched his tail and groWied and then
of sudden rose in the air like bird.
He had divided the forty feet into two
leaps, but the second was never madG.
AS he touched the earth after his first
he fell upon the pan of the trap. and
the jaws closed around both forelegs.
The trap was secured by cham
stout enough to draw sawlog, but
caught as he was the beast soon broke
the chain and went off into the jungle
with the trap. 1t was White he was be-
ing followed that the body Of Sir Ed
ward was found 1t seems hardy cred
ible but that tiger gave Reed and his
native assistants a two days hunt. He
dragged the monster trap through
thickets and UP hillsideS and across
ground where a man could hardly
make his way and when finally come
up with and killed he had traversed
distance of eighteen miles and had BIZ
ten one of his legs off in hopes to get
clear of the trap Not only that, but
an hour before he was come up with
and finished off, the beast, fettered as
he was and covered with his own blood
hobbled into a small village and tried
to seize a small child in its teeth.
1t was Reeds first experience with
his Yankee idea for thinning out the
dangerous beasts of India and making
a few dollars at the same time, and he
found that it worked very well. Though
much abused afterward for his scrub
way of downing the royal Bengal, he
was made a hero of in this case, and
friends of the lamented Sir Edward
presented him with purse of $500