Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1894 — Shot at Each Other for Stags. [ARTICLE]

Shot at Each Other for Stags.

London Correspondence New York Sun. It would be difficult to find on record a stranger hunting adventure than that experienced by Prince Hohenlcjhe, son of the German Chancellor, and Baron Vietingho|f, t the other day. They went out tos gether to shoot stags, and agreed td decoy the animals by imitating the in call on a special horn. The huntersk separated, each accompanied by al game-keeper, and went in different 1 directions. During the course of the day they approached each other, and each heard the. other’s decoy call and believed a stately stag was before ; him. Imitating the heavy steps of the animal, they noisily drew still nearer. The imitation of the calli and steps was so well done that they finally arrived within ten paces of | each other without perceiving theiri mistake. The thicket was so dense) that they could not see through it. / Both stood still, repeating the chai-1 lenge from time to time. At last the / Prince, tired of waiting, fired thrice { rapidly in the direction of the sup-1 posed game. The first bullet glanced! off the cartridge belt of Baron Vieti inghoff, the second struck his watch? and sprang off, the third fell dead) from his pocketbook well filled with) papers. The young Baron, though| hit three times, stood unwounded. He was so convinced that not his fellow-hunter, but a stag, was before’ him, that he attributed the shots the explosion of cartridges in liisM belt, and busied himself unfasteningx the belt for the purpose of throwing' it away. The astonishment of both, when they at last found out what* had happened was great.