The Mena weekly star., 1913-01-02
SLAYS DEER WITH
 HIS POCKET KNIFE
But Montgomery PastOr-EducatO Has No Desire to Repeat This Exciting Experience of
 Christmas Day.

Little Rock, Dec. Without boosting about the fact and admit ting that he wouldn't undergo the experience again for a large sum of money, the Rev. H. H. Thomas, pastor of the Baptist church 2t Glenwood and Womble, and prin- cipal of the school at Mt. Ida, Mont gomery county, told last night how
 he killed a deer with his pocket knife Christmas eve, after 1t had charged him on a hillside between
 Mount Ida and Glenwood. Incident ally, wedding scheduled for Christmas did not take place until Christmas night.
 MT. Thomas, who is attending the convention of the Arkansas State Teachers Association, had started on horseback from Mount Ida to Glenwood to marry Miss. Lillian An derson and w. H. Burt. About four miles from Mount Ida he said he
 heard a dog bark and, looking around, saw a buck deer dashing
 across a field toward the embank- ment of the Womble and Mount Ida railroad.
 A heavy sleet was on the ground,
 he said, and he was curious to see how the deer would manage to cross the embankment. He saw it enter a corn patch close to the rail- road, but did not see it emerge. Still curious, he said he decided to investigate, threw his rein across a post, pulled off his heavy overcoat and went toward the railroad. He found where the deer had passed through a culvert under the tracks and saw the dog follow.
 The pastor clambered up the em-
 bankment to see what else would happen, when the deer attempted to leap over a high wire fence on the mountain side. Twice he tried and twice he was pushed back by the top wires. The hound close on him, he turned at bay.
 It was then that the Rev. MT Thomas so far forgot himself as to wish to see the conflict from the ringside. He approached the com batants, he said, and suddenly the buck, with eyes blazing, rushed at him. As the animal reared and
 paved at him with it's hoofs, Mir Thomas said he jumped to the side and dealt the animal a kick in the | side. The deer lost it's footing and so did he, and they went tumbline
 down the hill together. The preach
 CT said he came up on top with his left hand grasping the animal be- tween the horns and ears. How he had gotten his knife open during those few exciting seconds, he said
 he did not know, but he had it ir
 his right hand and plunged it with lall his strength into the animals
 throat, slashing it out after he haC
 driven it home.
 With its jugular vein severed the animal struggled to it's feet, he said, throwing him head over heels
 on down the hill, while it ran anC
 leaped into the river, where il died.
 Then the pastor explained how
 he pulled the animal out, running
 his clothes and necessitating the postponement of the wedding. He
 threw the deer across his horse anc
 rode back to Mount Ida, telephoneC
 to the nervous couple at GlenwooG
 that the wedding must be post
 poned and called in the sheriff
 to skin the deer, a preacher not be- ing expected to be familiar with such a task.
 MT. Thomas said he purchased g
 new suit, went to Glenwod anC
 married the couple the following
 evening and then came to Little
 Rock to attend the teachers con-
 vention. To minimize his deed the
 slayer said the animal apparently
 had been shot in the flank earlier ir
 the day and was spent because oi
 the long chase before the hound.