MAN-EATING LEOPARD.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 17 May 1926, Page 5

MAN-EATING LEOPARD.

KILLED AFTER STRENUOUS HUNT BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 10.30 a.m. to-day. DELHI, May 16. A mian-eating leopard, which in seven yeans has killed over 125 victims, was shot by Captain Cloiibett near Rupiiapilayag, after ten weeks’ strenuous hunt. . . , The leopard entered houses at night and carried off the victims to the jungle. It avoided the most ingenious traps, mas twice captured but escaped. —Sydney Sun Cable. The death roll of the natives of India from the deadly cobra, and karait, and the: man-eating tigers and leopards, reaches an almost incredible total yearly. One man-eating tiger alone has been known to claim over 100 victims. The news from the Garhwal district of the United Provinces that a man-eat-ing leopard which has attacked and eaten 114 victims is- still at laigc, serves to recall the fact that India, almost alone among the countries ot the world, is still the scene of conflict between man and the creatures of the wild. Incredible as it may seem, the yearly toll of human deaths due to snalce-bite in India, is some 30,000. These figures are from official reports, as also the estimate of the victims jot the Garhwal man-eater, while tne death-rate from man-eaters as a whole reaches hundreds IT the whole, of the vast “sub-continent” is taken into ac_ count.