Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1912 — HUNT PANTHER IN FACTORY [ARTICLE]

HUNT PANTHER IN FACTORY

Workmen In India Factory Find Savage Beast In Building and Call Marksmen. London. —News comes from India of an exciting panther hunt in the government ammunition factory at Klrkee, Poona, in which an officer was 'badly mauled. ■ Two European apprentices discovered the animal asleep on a heap of sawdust in the annealing room' and went to raise the alarm. Two other apprentices, believing that the animal was a large wild cat, endeavored to hunt it out with iron rods. When the panther was roused fiftere was a staingede of the n&tive workmen, and a stoker, while climbing over a wall, ’had his heel torn off by the s animal. Several officers with rifles speedily arrived on the scene, but the panther sought cover behind the annealing ovens. Captain Kemble, R. A., assistant superintendent, and Conductor Chisholme, with, two shots succeeded in wounding it, but when Maj. Bertie Clay approached a window with his rifle the animal sprang at him and inflicted serious injuries to his head, face and .neck. • After two hours the panther was finally disposed by a well-directed shot from Lieutenant Wes. It. measured six feet ten inches in length. , '