Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 288, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1910 — BIG BEAR KILLED BY WOMAN [ARTICLE]

BIG BEAR KILLED BY WOMAN

Mrs. Weston Adams of Stoneham, Me., Outruns Bruin, Gets Rifle, and Shoots Pursuer. Norway, Me. —The bravest woman in Stoneham, near Norway, is Mrs. Weston Aslams,-who has lain low the biggest bear seen hereabouts for many years. Alone, blueberrying, on Spreckland mountain, Mrs. Adams, a frail but courageous woman of 30 years, ran across Bruin in a startling manner. She had nearly filled her pail with berries when she heard an angry growl and looking up saw a huge black bear standing on a ledge less than 20 feet away. Mrs. Adams stood her ground. She knew that to run would be a signal for i the bear to attack. The bear growled ferociously, and Mrs. Adains tried to drive it away by shaking her pail of berries at it Fearing that the bear would attack her any moment, the brave little woman did some quick thinking. She remembered that bears cannot run fast down a steep hill and knowing that, her rifle was below her she waited until the bear had turned its head, attracted by a noise further up the mountains, and then she ran for her life. She planned it well. Bruin angrily pursued her, but Mrs. Adams had a good start, because of its lumbering gait the bear oould not overtake her. Just in the nick of time Mrs. Adams came to the tree where she had left her rifle, and taking steady alm . sent a bullet into the oncoming 'bear.