The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-04-01
MACLED BY A LION.


long list of hunters injured by lions
comes from British East Africa, and
is printed in Forest and Stream. The
account of the injury to Mr.. Harry
Williams, the African explorer, is
given by the victim as follows:
On June Sth I was out alone, hav.
ing only my two gun-bearers with me,
when I saw lion on the right, about
three hundred yards away.
put up my hand as a signal to my
head gun-bearer to come UP with
spare rife, and together we worked
closer and closer to the lion. The
beast seemed to have no intention of
stopping, so I struck one hand on
| the back of the other. The lion
seemd to decide upon retreat, for he
turned and trotted away.
fired both barrels of my four hun
dred and fifty at him. One shot
reached him in the flank. 1t was
only a slight flesh-wound, but it par
| alyzed him for the moment. and he
sat down on his launches like dog.
After a few minutes he got up and
went into bit of open bush.
Not knowing what state the brute
might be in, I made for big open
patch on my left front, hoping to get
better sight of him. The lion, how
ever, had been watching me, and now
| came straight at me at a terrifying
pace.
1 thought myself a dead man, but
with the courage born of despair, I
raised my rifle in both hands and
struck him across the side of the
head. Almost simultaneously he
ducked and seized me by the right
leg, shaking me from side to side as
if had been a rat.
At that moment my gun-bearer
came up while the lion was actually
mauling me, and asked me how to
| turn the safety-catch. I had sufi-
cient presence of mind to be able to
explain in a second, and the gum
| bearer fired.
The lion left me and rushed into a
bush five yards away, giving me time
to put two cartridges in my rifle while
l still lay on the ground.
Raising myself to fire, saw that
| the lion was in the act Of springing.
1 fired both barrels from my hip at
his head, the "boy" firing at the same
time, and the brute rolled over dead.
| I fell back again, and for a few
moments half-swooned; but as soon
as the second gun-bearer came up l
sent him off to find camp and bring
back some men to carry me in. For
an hour lay there, and then half the
camp turned up, and I was carried in
on a bed I-shall never forget the
agony of that journey.
CHEETAH IN INDIAN VILLAGE.
A large cheetah, evidently from the
jungles near Malapuram, descended
few days ago on the village of Tirur
and caused a panic among the village
folk
Entering a Molpah hut, the beast
pounced upon woman, killing her
and then eating away portion of the
face and body. The poor woman
screamed for several minutes, but the
terrified neighbors could not find suf-
ficient courage to go to the rescue,
and on the cheetah emerging there
was a general stampede.
The brute went out, savagely at
tacking all it came across, and some
thirteen persons were severely
mauled, four of them succumbing to
their injuries Eventually the Chez
tab concealed itself in pit, where it
was followed by railway inspector;
who shot it. The first shot did not
tell, and the cheetah sprang on Mr..
Noronha, the official, who managed to
evade it. A coolie and Molpah villag-
er going to the rescue were attacked,
the villager being dragged down by
the cheetah.
Mr.. Noronha then shot the beast
through the heart. When the villag-
ers found that it was dead they
rushed up and belabored the carcass
with stones and any weapons they
could pick up.-Madras Mail.