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Show DEATH OF MAN-EATING TIGER Carefully Placed Spring Gun Did Its Work Well. - 1 On the morning of Thursday three Chinese woodcutters left their kongsl homo, situated at the ninth mile, Ayer Hltam road, thirteen and a half miles from Kajang, and went Into the jungle to work. 1 At 8 a. m., at a point about one and a half miles from the road, a tiger sprang out behind them, and one of them hit him on the head with a backward back-ward stroke of a parang, laying bare i tho bone of the skull, as afterward ap peared. The tiger did not at that time 1 seize 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 alone in a small clearing, a mile further In, was killed by tho tiger and his body carried away. The tracks showed that the tiger had systematically systematic-ally hunted up his man along the Jungle Jun-gle path. The next day a search party from Kajang went out, tho body was found and Mr. Hay set a spr ng gun, tho report re-port of which was heard at tho kongsl house soon after midnight. In the morning tho spot was visited again, 1 blood was seen and tho signs of a tre- I 1 mendous leap made by tho tiger. A fow yards away ho was found dead with a wound in his flank. Ho was brought to Kajang tho same night, and on being measured was found to be 1 feet 8 inches In length. In fhe pro- cess of skinning two cuts were found on one of tho hind legs, and it seems I ,- possible that they were tho cuts which ' ' . a woodcutter stated ho had Inflicted I I . , on a tiger with an axe a month or two . ago. Malay Mall, ii" n |
