| Show Trapper Fights Off Cougar That Invades Isolated Home CAMPBELL CAr RIVER BC B.C. Ed B.C.-Ed- Ed Edward ward McLean a rugged time part-time trapper and linesman with the Canadian department of transport revealed recently his hand to hand battle with a fierce cougar in his lonely one room cabin He reported he was getting ready for bed when a big cougar crashed through the window of his cabin miles northwest of Vancouver He fought barehanded in the dark punching and kicking the 60 pound cat as it went for his throat The crazed cougar clawed and chewed at my right arm and throat he said I III managed to drag him to a corner of the cabin and grabbed a butcher knife Using my left hand I plunged the knife into his throat and stomach McLean ran barefooted and clad only in his underwear to his nearby rowboat intending to summon help from a line cabin six miles to the south A brisk wind kept him adrift for more than two hours He reached the cabin but no one was there He was too weak to strike a light He crawled into a sleeping bag and slept for nine hours in subzero temperature When he awoke he used the transport departments department's telephone to call for help Two men rushed McLean McLean McLean Mc Mc- Lean 54 4 miles to a hospital Then they returned to his cabin The cougar was still alive but barely breathing A bullet finished it off oU |
