The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-01-25
HARRY MEDLEY
KILLS GRIZZLY
In The ROCKIES
Former Cape Man Writes of
His Encounter With Bruin
on Mountain.
MET BEAR WHILE He
WAS HUNTING DEER
Shot Beast in Head and Then
Sent Bullet Through its
Chest.

CneSt.
Harry Medley, who was until a few
rlOnths ago employed by the Demp-
sey Grocer Company Of this city, but
now is living in Casper, Wyo.. last
week killed a grizzly bear while hunt
ing N the Rocky Mountains. The ac-
count of his first hunt for large game
was given 10 several Cape Girardcau
friends in letters which reached this
city yesterday.
Casper, Wyoming, is only 4 few
miles from the foothills of the Rockies.
Mr.. Medley and 4 party of friends left
Casper early in the morning. to spend
a day hunting deer in the mountains.
They entered the mountains, Mr.. Med
! ley wrote, at q section where bear are
often seen, and mounted the steep in
clines on foot.
! The party separated as they entered
/ the mountains, and each was instruct
ed to proceed in 4 certain direction,
which ultimately would bring them to-
gether at the intersection Of two
trails. Mr.. Medley had not gone far
until he heard a disturbance in the
underbrush hardly so yards above him.
Believing it 70 be Il deer or q noun
tain sheep, he hurried up the path in
the hope that he might get shot at
close range.
When he reached a clearing in the
mountain forest, he could see the un-
derbrush wave as the animal made it's
way up the side of the mountain.
Medley was too anxious to kill the
quarry that he hesitated to take
blind shot into TIE brush, because he
feared that should his charge go
astray. the animal would make its es-
cape
The former Cape Girardeauan hur-
ried up the path, expecting to con-
front the animal as it emerged from
the thicket o. as it entered the trail. !
But after another 15-minute climb, he
lost trail OF the animal that had been !
stalking, and he sat down on the edge |
Of cliff to survey the surroundings.
He was about ready to renew his .
journey up the mountain side when |
he was startled by = gruEting sound /
only few PAGES away. The warning !
assured him that he had been pur-
suing a grizzly instead Of deer and /
knowing that ne would have to make |
good, if called upon to shoot, nc level
ed his rife at point from which the ,
noise came and made ready to let
drive as soon as the animal made its !
appearance.
An instant later, full-grown bTuin
rushed out into the clearing, within
less than 80 yards from where Medley !
stood. The bear discovered the former |
Cape Girardeauan and stopped dead !
still.
Medley took aim at a spot between
Mr. Bruins eyes and pulled the trig-
ger. The bear toppled over, but he
was not dead. Growing and snorting
furiously, the big grizzly endeavored |
to rise. Finally the angry beast man.
aged to get to its feet and then fell
back on its launches. Medley, who
stood at his post, waited for another
to send another bullet into
his big quarry, and when the bear set
tied back with his left side facing the
hunter, Medley's rife cracked again.
The bullet penetrated the wall of the
chest Just back of the left foreleg, and
brain rolled over and soon expired.
Mr.. Medley was ready to call it a
days work. He hurried up the trail to
a point where he was to meet his COM
rades. When he reached the crest of
the mountain, he shouted down the
slopes to his companions. The hunters
soon assembled and then proceeded
down to the scene of the killing to ex-
anime the beast. They found that
the first bullet had penetrated the
skull, but had glanced, and while it
had inflicted a deadly wound, the bull
let had only penetrated a part of the
brain. The second shot entered the
chest, passing through the heart.
The bear was carried back to Cas-
per, DISTANCE Of almost 30 miles, on
a hurrc, one sf the small RULES used
especially fsh- ps&t animals in the