TRAGIC FATE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 266, 8 April 1914, Page 5

TRAGIC FATE.

OF A CINEMA OPERATOR. MAULED BY A LION. Full details are now available from Nairobi of the tragic fate of Mr. fritz Schindler, a member of Mr. Paul Raincy's cinematograph expedition, who was mauled on .January 21 while attempting to photograph a lion hunt, and died at Nairobi six days later. On the day of the accident, !£r. Schindler was out with Mr. Rainev near Lake Naivaslui. They hoped to take cinematograph pictures of a lion brought to bay by dogs. A lion was found in a patch of bush. Creeping closer and closer the two men were able to catch glimpses of the beast, which was beset by the dogs. Mr. Schindler decided io ride behind the bush and drive the lion towards the camera. Mr. Rainey, who was intently watching, suddenly saw the lion's ears dicker and his head turn. He realised then that his friend had ridden right into the bush. Rainey shouted a warning as the lion sprang out of sight. Shots rang out, and the lion, untouched, sprang back upon Rainey; then, again turning, pursued the lleeing natives who were of the white men's party. Schindler's horse at this moment burst into the open streaming with blood, and Rainey, snatching up his rille, allot the lion point-blank. Oil going into the bush he found Schindler lying with grievous wounds in the abdomen, where the lion had bitten, lie was unconscious and still game. After first aid had been rendered the wounded man was taken in a. special train to Nairobi, where, 011 examination, his wounds were found to be mortal. Schindler maintained his courage to the last. Blood poisoning set in, and was followed by a painless death. —Renter's Special Service.