A Remarkable Adventure Wish Tigers.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 385, 17 July 1889, Page 3

A Remarkable Adventure Wish Tigers.

Mu Gaivdett; district i-ongineer at Abu Road, 'had a .remarkable adv.entme with fcigeri lately. A^' .Gabbetb was travelling by trolly _bebween Ab.u Road and Roh when one of the gatekeepers gave him k'habai of a 'family of tigers in an adjoining jungle,, and Mr Ga,b,b"ett> accompanied by his trolly men tinct tljc Oltf gatekce'per,! s'tarto'd at once for the scene* 'of operation's.' He had not long to' w'aife" before throe fine 'tigers broke cover an'd he dropped 'the foremost dead with a well-dtfocted shoe. 'He- then fired at the next one, but, though the, brute was hard hit, he managed to make off toward a river bed in the vicinity. - Mr Gabbett then had a .shot at the. third, and succeeded, j.n wounding him badly, but the arjimal beat a retreat .into a cave hard by. In the mean time the ( tiger which 'had gone toward the river bed fell in with a shepherd, \\ v hom he mauled rather badly. Mr Gabbetb opened lire on stripes, who was hit, and rolled>oyer, but charged, and was hit twice again.-' Mr Gabbett was aiming another shot when hi& foot slipped and he fell, and the infmiated beast dealt him a blow on the head which rondered him insensible. The old, gatekeeper very" pluckily attacked the tiger with his sword, bub only, diverted the, fury of the animal to himself. The brute felled hini to the ground with a .stroke of his paw, and then returned to Mr Gabbett. This diversion saved his life, for the tigor only succeeded in clawing him slightly and then 'fell dead. A fourth tiger also appeared on the scene, but did not molest ariyone , Mr Gabbett was brought into Abu Road, He is progressing and purposes going, nome shortly. The shepherd is also in' a fair, way to recovery, but, the poor old gatekeeper Ims succumbed. — ' Calcutta Englishman.'

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