Show STOLEN BY A 00 RILLA A A cincinnati mn awful exports plat gt africa A who has hag law tely re and de east of south turned from a tour tou africa told a reporter of a at thrilling encounter he had with a gorilla while in that tar far off country said be the evening train had a arrived at lorenzo marques delagoa bay on schedule time but what a night it down as if 11 the very wasi was the rain came wind blew a 8 heavens were falling the terrific gale and the darkness which overspread the whole scene was such as I 1 had never witnessed eased before it night to the experience was wao however a fitting peri ence which fo followed stepping from what the netherlands ra railroad company term a first class carriage I 1 accosted a heavyset heavy set individual on the platform can you tell me sir ail which to Is th the e best hotel of this place I 1 asked well stranger he remark remarked ed that Is hardly a fair question to ask me aa I 1 own both the hotels in this place 1 I turned over my grip to him and aad followed a crowd of africans through that tropical storm dinner waa served at the international hotel but my permanent headquarters were to be at the central both of these being owned by jim carpenter the person I 1 met at the station after dinner an employed of the th hotel asked me it if I 1 was ready to go 90 to the central I 1 replied in the affirmative firma tive he went to the door and above the din of wind and rain could be heard his voice yelling sixpence my belief was that this thill individual was singing out to some of the native that a sixpence job was waiting for any of them who would take me to th central hotel but it proved to be th peculiar name of an east bast aarl african can negro sixpence came with a yap boas it seemed as he came that a wc sac tion of that black night was moving bodily toward me the instruction wai wa to keep close to sixpence the route was through a lar large go garden we had hardly entered the gardei inclosure when a terrific scream wat wa heard and at the same game time I 1 wai struck on the head in an instant I 1 hae ha my revolver out and fired at my un known assailant my enemy gr grapple applet with me but before losing my hold 0 the revolver I 1 managed to fire two mort mon shots hots but it was an uneven fight received another blow on the head ren dering me unconscious when I 1 r regained consciousness which was thre I 1 d days ays later I 1 learned that my firing oi 01 I 1 the revolver had attracted the attention of an american who was knotx I 1 at delagoa day bay as texas wilson ha H told me that he ran out of his hous with his gun and lantern and hae had hardly gone yards when he cami cam across a huge gorilla carrying me ol 01 his back the gorilla scowled at him but he was determined to try to resau me from that brute after taking i ca careful reful aim he managed to shoot th animal without hitting me and killed him then he brought me to the hotel where I 1 afterward was informed thal thai a big gorilla had been sent to jia carpenter three days previous he hae had been tied to a tree in the garden bul somehow must have broken his cha chala and was waiting for the first comer II 11 was carpenters intention to send th gorilla to the manchester england zoological garden as a present ci cincinnati n enquirer I 1 |