Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1911 — THREE KILL A TIGER [ARTICLE]

THREE KILL A TIGER

Village of Nan, Siam, Rejoices at Death of Beast. Bangkok Paper Gives Graphic Account of Slaying of Ferocious Bengal Tiger by Three Americans— Woman Watched Battle. 2. Minneapolis, Minn.—How a Minneapolis young man, well known socially, helped to bring down a Bengal tiger in Siam, is told in a Bangkok newspaper, a copy of which was received by John S. Bradstreet Ray Peoples Is the man. The account of the hunt as it appears in the Nan correspondence of the Bangkok paper, follows: “The quiet city of Nan was stirred up last Saturday by the news that a large Bengal tiger was in our midst He had killed a large bullock in the morning and was hiding under cover in an old deserted wat across the river from Dr. Taylor’s compound. The wat was grown over with dense thorns so thick that a man had to cut his way through. It did not seem possible that a tiger could'be so near us, not a quarter of a mile from Dr. Taylor’s house. “Siamese dwellings were within 300 yards of the spot where he was hiding. Word was sent to Dr.'Peoples. who had a good gun. He sent for Captain Springer, who is at the head of the gendarmerie force, to assist Ray Peoples was here visiting his parents. Each of these three had guns. The plan was to station the men with guns in trees and have beaters drive the tiger out He came out once and was shot at, and returned. “All efforts by the beaters and men with guns could not drive him out The

afternoon was spent, darkness came on and still the tiger held the fort. After the men left and all was quiet, the three men decided to watch for him. Everything was in their favor. The tiger would want to finish the meal he had commenced in the morning. The full moon was shining in all its tropical brightness across the rich fields and upon the spot where the tiger would come out. “They did not have to wait long before the tiger made his appearance, cautiously creeping out. After his head and shoulders were in view, Dr. Peoples fired, striking him in the neck. The tiger gave a terrible growl and a spring forward. Ray Peoples shot him in the chest. Captain Springer sent a well-directed bullet, striking him un-

der the eye. A few more shots ended the battle. “There was great rejoicing on the part of all over the fact that* there was one fewer Bengal tiger in Nan. His body was seven feet long, tail three feet, height three and one-half feet, with head, shoulders, teeth, paws to match. Thousands called to See him the following day. Great credit is due to the three men that stood so bravely to their post and also to the beaters who took their share In the hunt This was a great treat that many enjoyed, it being so near that ladies could sit on Dr. Taylor’s upper piazza and look over the river and rice fields and see the battle go on all the afternoon and could hear the men directing the fight Tigers have been troubling the people much in this vicinity the last six months. They have killed a number of cattle and dogs. Matty people have been killed by them, too, in the villages."