Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-04-02
THE LADY AND THE TIGER.
very Largest Animal of the Kind
Ever Killed in India, Shot by
American Woman.

A slender young American womah
had the recent distinction of shoot
ing the largest tiger ever killed in
India, and is entitled to the bounty
offered by the British government,
The heroine of this exploit is Mrs.
Donnett, wife of an English army
officer on service in India, daughter
of John H. Whitehouse, of Irvington
on-the-Hudson, says the St. Paul
Pioneer-Press. Mrs. Donnett has
been spending December and Jan,
uary with her husband and a party
of friends hunting big game in the
Chanda jungle of Northern India, in
the midst of $4,000 square miles of
forest reserves Astounding in all
kinds of savage beasts and other big
game. She has killed two tigers, four
panthers, four bears, eight boars and
several other wild beasts, while the
rest of the party killed nine other ii.
gers and a corresponding number of
less dangerous animals. Mrs. Don.
nett's second tiger measured 10 feet s
inches in length and is the largest
ever killed in India. Her first tiger
measured s feet 4 inches. In a
letter dated January IL last, this ex-
~traordinary young m describes
the event and her sensations III a
simple but graphic manner
II am the proud slayer of the
largest tiger ever shot in India" she
exclaims with girlish enthusiasm.
"and he fell at my first shot. He
measures 10 feet 3 inches, has
a perfect coat, and teeth two inches
long. 1t took 16 men to carry him
to camp and | did it all myself and
it was such a difficult shot. But |
must settle down and tell you all
about it. | am sort of a big bug in
camp now. The natives bow down
and kiss the hem of my dress, for ]
am the first lady who has ever shot
in these great jungles. All, I an. a
lucky beggar. So just listen while I
tell you all about it..
1--WE heard a tiger had killed a lot
of deer in a piece of bamboo Jungle
about six miles off, so Timmins, my
husband, got about 40 beaters to-
gether and we took up our positions
near an open space, while the beat
tiers went into the jungle with drums
and horns. driving six buffalo in
front of them, and made hideous
noises. After about half an hour,
when the beast was nearly up to my
tree l saw what | first took for a
deer gliding through the high grass
and bamboo, when suddenly an open
ing revealed a huge tiger to my as
tonished gaze. He was going full
bat, so | saw it was a case of then
or never, and although it was a very
blind shot | let blaze at the vanish
ing stripes as they flashed through
the bamboos.
ga roar and rush told me the mon
ster was hit, but l could see nothing,
as the jungle vas so dense. When the
shikar came up / told him where I
had fired and got down, and with
loaded rifles we approached the spot
where about ten yards from where I
fired lay the very finest monster I
ever saw, and his great striped body
did indeed look like a slain king of
the forest. The shikar and l all but
Rugged in our excitement, and when
the bearers came up our hurrahs and
jubilant ordinations brought Tim
minis tumbling down out of his tree.
and his joy and pride quite touched
me. The monster was indeed elo-
rious with his 10 feet s inches spread
out to their full, his gums rolled up
showing his enormous teeth and his
skin in its prime, and, oh, so beau
tifully yellow and black.
81 had already shot three bears,
two panthers and a tiger, besides all
sorts of deer and other smaller
beasts, and when I saw that monster
lying there slain by my own hands
1t was the proudest and happiest mo-
ment of my life, and I shall never get
over the feeling of e%xultation."