Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1912 — Rabbit Hunters Kill Lynx. [ARTICLE]

Rabbit Hunters Kill Lynx.

Evansville, Nov. 15.—While hunting rabbits on the farm of Henry Seibert, near here. Dr. M Timmons of SL Louis was attacked by a lynx, which leaped at him from a thicket. The doctor ran and as the animal was about to spring upon him it was shot by Seibert. The animal was only wounded and climbed a tree, from which it was clubbed and then killed by Seibert. It was 36 inches long. 22 inches high at the shoulder and weighed 24 pounds. No lynx has been killed in this section for more than thirty years. Last winter a “tiger” terrorized farmers near Hazleton, and thiß is believed to be the same, animal.