THE END OF A MAN-EATING TIGER.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3003, 9 February 1881, Page 4

THE END OF A MAN-EATING TIGER.

The Indian papers report that a maneating tiger, which had killed fifty persons during the last three years, has been shot at Chakarata. This animal, it seems, had for the last three years been the terror of the tract of country known as Jaunsar-Bawar. On the 13th of September, leaving his usual haunts, the tiger appeared at Deoban and killeii two men close to. the forest officer's garden. On the morning of the 15th he killed a bullock, a mile and a half from Chakarata, on the Deoban-road. The forest officer, Mr A. Smythies, Colonel FitzRoy, sth -Fusilier?, and most of tbe officers in garrison, then made arrangements to surround the spot where the tiger was last seen Several soldiers also volunteered. After about two hours' beating, the tiger ■was " marked down" under a cliff. Noth ing could persuade him to leave his cover, and it was not until a party with five or six s;uns advanced to the spot where he was ying that a shot was possible, Mr Smythies drawing first blood. The tiger then bolted, receiving the fire of several rifles, and was eventually killed about four hundred yards from where he was first hit. The Government /eward for the tiger was four hundred rupees. He was a small but very powerful animal, measuring as he lay seven feet eight inches from his nose to the tip of his tail.