A WOMAN KILLS A PANTHER

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1431, 14 December 1886, Page 2

A WOMAN KILLS A PANTHER

A huge dan-colored panther, which for several weeks terrorised the people about Bouse’s Grove, eight mites from Tolono, 111, was billed recently by a woman who there y saved the lives of her two little girls. t’ho plucky woman was Mrs Mont* calm, who was on her way from Indian Territory to her former home, near Cleveland . Some years ago she and her fans* went west, where ihe latter waa killed. Left with two children, the woman loaded her goods on a waggoi and started on the long journey to her Ohio Home*. She reached Boose's Grove yesterday, and Mrs M mtoalm stopped and began to get dinner. The children wandered off into - the bash, and when the mother called them to dinner she got no answer. Fear* in ’ something was wrong, she took hei rifle from the waggon and started for the wood near by. Before going fat e moving branch of a tree attracted her attention, and on going nearer she discovered a large panther preparing to spring on her children, who were lying asleep at the foot of a tree. Mrs Montcalm drew a bead on the pan’her, and shot it through the body. JaniOn Fabert and D. W# Smith, wto were attracted by the shot, offered to help her remove the pelt, bat she performed the work herself, and took the pelt with her when she resumed her journey. Fabert and Smith had previously shot at the animal without eSSsob