Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1896 — A Boy that Killed a Panther. [ARTICLE]

A Boy that Killed a Panther.

M. P. Dunham writes to Recreation from Lyons, Mont., to tell about 12-year-old R. K. Hutchins and his 14-year.old sister Lulu. The two killed a mountain lion on the Madison River at Dunham's Bridge. The sister saw the beast and her dog barked at it. The sister went and got her brother, who took his father’s gun and went after the big cat. He followed it to a pine thicket, into which he went. He found and shot the creature dead. Just then Dunham cftme along and helped get the lion out. Jt was a medium-sized one, 7& feet long, but plenty big enough to break a heifer’s back.