Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-03-20
CRIPPLED THE SUGGEMA.
African Sportsmen Also Had Some
Other Very Exciting Adventures.

Hail dozen hunters of big game
swapred sentiments in the smoking
room of the Atlantic Transport liner
Minnetonka, from London. almost all
the stormy way across the clustering
sea. They had not finished spinning
yarns even after they entered the piac-
id bay, and the ship news man. VIII"
wandered into the smoking room, capt
ured n few.
j. D. Roman Baldwin, who has Il
residence in Newport. and has been
jogging around the world for two
years spent a part of his vacation
shooting in British East Africa. In
his list of killed he put two big rhinos.
two lions. and lioness He had quite
a tirle with the loness, which, as the
colonel might have remarked. charged.
She was not about To charge" but
actually came on the lone for the
hunter. He brought her down when
she was - feet away. Mir. Baldwin
campod once in herd of elephants,
but their tusks were not of the pro-
per weight to warrant legal shooting.
so he just looked at the pachyderms
and they looked at him.
Mcssrs. Ignatius and John G. Draca-
poll both F.. @. =. SIS, of London,
begged to remark that they also had
had some experience in Africa. John
G. related story to match that OF
the slayer of the loness. 1t was n
two-horncd rhino that pursued him.
and the horns We're 20 inches long.
The way the behemoth paved up the
earth in that charge could not be
equaled by the onslaught of a troop
of cavalry. And a rhno can run. All
the black gunbearers fled yelling.
There We're no trees to dodge behind
and an enraged rhino is tIeeter than
q man. All that the hunter could do
was to depend on his trusty rifle. as
the colonel might say. and he banged
away when the rhino, in cloud OF
real estate that almost concealed him,
was only feet inches away Gas the
tape subsequently showed). The
rhino fell dead with bullet through
it's heart-a very proper place to put
it under the circumstances.
Chester p. Crawford. who intro
duced roller skating into London, had
something to say about hunting the
suggema in Jersey City. He was
peacefully sleeping when he heard Il
war whoop outside his open window,
for it was summer. He rushed to the
window and oeheld what seemed IKE
an aeroplane: there were lights on the
creature, and this puzzled him DIT.
He had yrIter seen II suggena liiuih-
mated before. He closed the window.
But he suggema had seen nm. It's
glowing prov revealed everything in
the room with startling distinctness.
In a second there was crash OF glass.
The suggema had come through, car.
rviny away sash and all rigging at
tached.
Aiming his trusty automatic at the
awful vision, Mr.. Crawford fired ten
times He noted that he had put Qua
one of the lights-he thinks it was the
starboard Iight-of the suggema. Ho
did not linger TO see anything Clse
but bolted for the door, closing it be-
hind him. He heard another crasi, of
glass. and, peeping into the room. no.
ticed that the other window had been
smashed and that the suggema had
gone. Naturally he inferred that it
had turned right around and dashed
right out again. He believes that it
was not fear that inspired the retreat
of the suggema. but that he bad shot
away one of its propellers. Ind that
it had made the circle before 1T could
shut off steam on the other.
What" cried the smokers inI chorus,
''is suggeina?" y r.
why n cross between n Jersey
mosquito and a lightning. -hpss s7rssAw
York Sun.