The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-11-26
HUNTER SHOT DEER.
WITH NOVEL BULLET
He Made Missiles of Flour, Glue, and
Morphine, and Gathered Up
the Sleepers.

After the thread companies of Scot
land and Connecticut had cut of all the
white birches In the townships near here
and had shipped the spool bars away,
there were about 90. 600 acres of tender
birch sprouts left on the stony upIands
and as soon as the workmen quit the
deer came in. They have fattened upon
the young trees for more nan a year
Last fail some hunters from Massachu-
sets counted 312 full grown deer in a
days cruising around the lake, and
more than 200 carcasses were shipped
away in the open season, to say nothing
Of those eaten IN local sporting camps.
Last February the owners of three
private parks near Lenox, Mass, asked
the Maine game commissioners 10 grant
permission to capture forty adult deer
to take way and put in their fenced
preserves. They received official sane
ton for the act. and though the snow
was not deep and no crust had formed
to retard the flight OF the deer hfty-eight
fine specimens were taken and tied up
by the legs TO be sent by rail. But be-
fore the agents came for the captives
forty-two of them had died from con-
finement and injuries received in the
chase and capture. leaving only sixteen
Since then a score of them have been
employed at different times in trying to
complete the number named IN the
grant. A few unfortunate victims had
been cornered, and compelled 10 sur
render alive, but the quota was far from
complete when Dr. Hemingway came
down from Buffalo, Ny, and began to
photograph the wild deer and study
their habits. on learning that a large
reward was offered for living deer de-
IiVered at the railroad station, the doc
tor wrote 70 the owners of the parks
and agreed to catch and crate twenty
five deer and have them ready for
shipment inside Of two weeks for
lump sum of $500. AS the cost had been
fully 800 for every living deer taken,
the offer wa. accepted with thanks, and
the Buffalo citizen sent home for what
he called his trap.
When IL came by express the trap"
proved TO be a lOng-barreied shotgun
The guides and interested residents told
DR.. Hemingway thae9he was not al
lowed to shoot deer IN close time, but
he smiled and gave no answer. For
six mornings after his gun arrived the
doctor was heard far out among the
hills in the birch sprouts; shooting. He
went forth at dawn and returned empty
handed about 8 o'clock. spending the
rest of the day in smoking about the
hotel Just before nightfall every even
ing he returned to the woods, with two
or three guides. every one of whom
came back bringing a live deer.
The residents were much excited over
the ports which came TO them, and the
doctor was called a magician, an OUTLAW
and several other hard names. One
morning last week he shipped eight
deer by rail. and was arrested by a
game warden as he was leaving the
station. Finding 1t useless TO show his
permission, signed BIZ the commissioners.
he went before a local justice and re-
vealed his secret o. how to shoot deer
and send them away without killing
them.
1T is all very simple" said the doc
tor. There are certain narcotic drugs
which will put human beings TO sleep
If introduced into the blood by means
OF an injection. ] argued that similar
drugs would have a like effect o. deer
So / made d composition bullet of -four
paste, a vegetable alkaloid and soluble
glue, and when it was dry and hard I