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Show DEATH OF MAN-EATINQ TIQER Carefully Placed Spring Gun Did Its Work Well. On the mornlns of Thursday three Chinoso woodcutters left their kongal home, situated at tho ninth mile, Ayer Hltnm road, thirteen and a half miles from Kajan. and went Into tho Jungle to worlt. At 8 a. m at a point about one and a half mllos from the road, a tiger sprang out behind thorn, and one of them hit him on tho head with a backward back-ward stroke of a parang, laying bare tho bono of tho skull, as nftorward appeared. ap-peared. The tiger did not at that time solso any of the men, who went on to their usual working places. About 11:30 a. m. ono of them who was sawing saw-ing nlone In a small cloarlng, a mile further In, was killed by tho tiger and his body carried away. Tho tracks showed that tho tiger had systematically systematic-ally hunted up his man along the Jungle Jun-gle path. The next day a search party from Kojang went out, the body was found and Mr TTnt mat n aynuK sun, uiu report re-port of which was hoard at tho kongsl house soon after midnight. In the morning the spot was visited again, blood was sejn nnd the signs of a tremendous tre-mendous leap mado by tho tlgor. A few yards away ho was found dead with a wound In his flank. Ho was brought to Knjang tho same night, and on being measurod was found to be S foot 8 Inches In longth. In the process pro-cess of skinning two cuts were found on one of tho hind legs, and It seoms possible that thoy woro tho cuts which a woodcutter statod ho had Inflicted on a tiger with an axe a month or two ago. Malay Mall. |