LION SHOT IN BACK YARD.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 162, 10 July 1926, Page 23

LION SHOT IN BACK YARD.

TRAPPED KILLING A DOG. "I have only shot one lion, although they, together with elephants, buffalo, antelope and hippotami, abound In our area," said Mr. J. A. Ross, who arrived In London from the Industrial Mission of the L.M.S. at Eambole, Northern Rhodesia. "This lion I shot in my backyard," he continued. "My wife, hearing a row there, looked Into a shed and found a lion killing an antelope and a dog. "She could do nothing till I came in, twenty minutes later. When I peeped In, thinking that the beast would be gone, I found him lying down resting. "I fired through the open door, whereupon he came for mc.. "I was able to slam the door to, however, and shoot through the woodwork. "It was not possible to finish him off that day, and we spent the night In our room upstairs not uiauy yards away from the wounded lion. I was able to give the coup de grace in the morning." Mr. Ross makes full use of his spoils of the chase, for any of the curcases not consumed go to the fat department of his soap factory. This* is a flourishing one, and supplies a high g.ade of soap not only to the natives, but to white settlers and officials. Mr. Ross, who was born at Sklpton, Yorkshire, worked for ten years In a Nelson cotton mill. He had a commercial training, is an expert shorthand writer and an adept in carpentry and Iron work.