KILLED BY A TIGER

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 209, 15 September 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

KILLED BY A TIGER

Details of the death on May 25, is the result of wounds inflicted by a tiger, of Mr. H. F. K. Bell, DepuMComnnssioncr at SUsapur, India, appear in the Calcutta ''Statesman." Mr. and Mrs. Bell followed the trail a few miles from Kargi Road station, and news was brought that there was a t'ger in the jungles. Sir. and Mrs Bell went out in the evening and came upon the beast a few miles from tin camp. Both Mr. and Mrs. Bell fired at tho tiger, and one ol them hit the beast, it is believed, in the shoulder. The tiger made off into the dome scrub. Mr. and Mrs. Bell followed the tra:>. which led into a dry brftok bed: and there the tiger, which was Irding off tiio track, suddenly sprang upon Mr. Bell as lie was passing, and fastened his teeth on his hip, while his claws lacerated the shoulder. Mr. Bell died shortly afterwards. He had served in the Central Provinces for eighteen years, and had been Deputv Commissioner at Sl-apur sine JLU3. * A WARRIOR SCHOOLBOY. Schoolboys in the trenches are no novelty—but it has not been necessarc to wait until the war was over to find fi discharged warrior in school. I know of one lad (says a writer in the "Even, ing Standard'") who enlsted. went to tho front, got wounded and discharge! from the Army us permanently unfit, and has now returned ito school and taken up Irs old position in the Sixth Form to finish his education. He nan one privilege, and one only. Although he is a boarder ho is allowed to smoke S'o.edless to say, his wo-d is hvv among the small fry.