Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1904-01-14
Woman Killed a Tiger.

net-nAs Juet snoI tue IaIRest tIReI
ever killed in India, and so won . re-
ward the British Government had set
upon his head.
Mru. Donnet is the daughter Of John
II. Whitehouse, Of Irvington.on-the
Hudson, who several years ago mar.
ried Major DonHet, Of the British
Army. He is now stationed at a
rather lonely post near Peshawur, and
Mrs. Donnet is with him. She wrote
az follows of her feat in the Philsdel-
phis North American:
"This msn-eIter had been the
plague Of the settlement for more than
a year. he was very large and very
old, so that he had given up the pre-
datory habits of his younger dayssnd
settled himself near the camp. He
was over.fond of the bullocks and buff
faloes that were a part of the camp
equipment, and had once or twice
killed q native.
lone expedition after another had
been sent out to kill him, and more
than once had he been beaten out of
his lair; but aside from wounding him
the huntsmen had accomplished moth
ing.
Finally matters reached such pass
that the coolies, upon sighting tracks
Of the tiger, would lose all interest in
the days undertaking.
MY husband, the major, and all
the other white men were away when
the tiger carried off the wife ofa sut-
Ter. Part of the remains were found
hardly mile from the post, and the
natives were very much wrought up.
On previous occasion | had killed a
bear, and, knowing this, delegation
waited upon me with a request that |
try Tor the tiger. They were willing
TO beat the jungle and drive him out,
they said, but no one among them Was
marksmsn enough to shoot him.
Il knew that had my husband been
at home l would not have been per-
mitted even TO accompany party,
but was very anxious TO get a shot
at a tiger, this one in particular, 80 |
said l would 60 A little more than
a mile from the post | stationed my
self in a clearing and awaited develop
ments, while the men formed great
circle and began to beat through the
jungle.
1T was o'clock in the afternoon,
and l was beginning to feel discour-
aged, when away up in the nullah
heard the sound of the tom-toms and
the footing Of the horns. | knew
then that the beaters-in had started
something and were trying to head 1t
my way.
"a tiger when annoyed is a rapid
traveller, so it was not long before
saw the tall grass move and great
yellow head look out into the clearing.
That was my shot.
THE ball struck the tiger in the
head, but was not fatal, and neither
was a second, which apparently
glanced of.
THE tiger stepped out Of the brake
until more than half of his body was
revealed. ! felt daIed. Something
in the malevolent eyes held me. They
seemed to be measuring the distance
between himself and me. Then, as
he crouched, bis great muscles swell
ing in forelegs and throat, l fired.
Answering the noise Of my gun an
unearthlY roar came from the tiger.
This convinced me that the third shot
had taken effect, but az / saw him
plunging, concluded that he was not
badly hurt.
"a tiger in the most pssceable
frame of mind is not a pleasant Great
ure to have about, so / felt | had bet
ter not try to follow this wounded one
into the jungle, where | could not see
TO shoot. l did not believe he had
gone far, and that the beaters would
coon have him up again and headed
my way. So sat down 10 await de-
velopments. The natives pounded
on the tom-toms and yelled, but the
tiger did not appear.
"At the end Of half an hour all the
noise ceased, and the bsaters. all grim
ming, trooped into the clearing.
"'He is dead, with bullet though
the heart, they told me.
There so yards into the jungle the
tiger lay. Four men dragged him 10
where stood, and he proved the big
gest Of his kind had ever seen"
Mrs. Johanna Soderholm, Of Fergus
Falls, Mimi, fell and dislocsted her
Il a IL harL