Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1907 — HAS REAL GRIEVANCE. [ARTICLE]

HAS REAL GRIEVANCE.

Prisoner Buffers Inconveniences fil ia ~ Indian Jail. —A prlsoner~te-Rampore Boalla jail has a clear grievance against the government. There are certain Inconveniences inseparable from prison Ilfs which all reSsonable criminals more or less unwillingly accept, but the most complaisant draw the line at be ing marked down and clawed by a leopardess in .the seclusion of the prison yard. The animal seems to have been Inspired by a suffragettelike curiosity as to the inside of a prison, and having got in by the highly irregular method of leaping the wall she ensconced, herself among the low brick piers on which the old barracks are raised from the ground. In the early afternoon she espied a prisoner in the yard clearing up, and, like the Impulsive creature she is, promptly leaped upon him, striking him to the ground and clawing his back. Then, with the fickleness of her sex, she suddenly changed her mind, and in an access of shyness ran away and hid herself among the brick pillars. Now Col. R. R. Weir, inspector general of prisons, happened to be in the village, anfftobtertfae Incident was reported. Though it cannot be said that the duties of an inspector general of prisons included the destruction of vermin, Col. Weir did not stop to consider technicalities, but borrowed a rifle. After some difficulty in getting within striking distance of the intruder as she lay in her fastness, he succeeded in planting his first shot behind her shoulder, after —which nothing remained to be done but to drag off the carcass and record its tape measurements as more than seven feet—London Daily Telegraph.