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Show RECEIVES MORTAL WOUND Noted Stalker of Game in Fatal Encounter With Lion Natasha, British Rast Africa. June 15 A member of the party of F. C Selnus, the noted African hunter, and Geo. McMillan, a nephew of the late Senator McMillan of Michigan, was brought in here yesterday mortally wounded by a Hon. The man's name is Williams and he was in the service of Mr. McMillan as a secretary. The encounter with the lion occurred in the SolIU district, where the party has hern shooting, T!ic Roosevelt party left here for the Solik district, but nothing has been heard of the expeditiuii since its departure. de-parture. St. Louis. Tune 15. C. N. Pry tine, one of the manage! s of the McMillan estate here, today Identified the dead hunter as Perry C. Williams, an Englishman, Eng-lishman, 30 years old Mr. Prynne, who hunted on the McMillan Mc-Millan ranch a few years ago, said that Mr. Williams had" seen much service ser-vice In the Basuti and other native wars of British East Africa, and had been wounded. Mr. Prynne said that Williams was noted as a stalker of game and as a sure shot. Ills strength was prodigious prodig-ious and hl3 coolness in time of danger dan-ger had been proven often. Williams visited St. Louis in the1 autumn of 1907. |