ENCOUNTER WITH TIGER
cartridge misses fire. WOMAN'S NARROW ESCAPE. CALCUTTA, Jan- 12. The wife of a forest officer in the United Provinces, Mrs. Smythies, had » most unpleasant experience on New Year's Day while out shooting in the jungle at the foothills of the Himalayas. She fired at a tiger from her machan (observation post, usually fixed tip a tree), while her husband, who was guarding the entrance to a strip of the jungle, twice drove the tiger back to her. Both his shots, unfortunately, missed. The tiger then began climbing Up the tree, which was of a largo, straight* smooth-barked species, and endeavoured to get into the machan and attack Mrs. Smvthies. The latter most couiageously rammed her rifle down the tiger s tliro-it and pressed the trigger, but the cartridge missed fire, and she had no time to reload. Mrs. Smythies attempted to get out of the machan, but fell. Her husband fired a third time as the tiger was climbing the tree, and hit it, but not fatally. The last and successful shot was a desperate affair, as by then the tiger and Mrs. Smythies were both in the machan. The tiger was a good specimen, measuring 9ft. Sin.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19230, 20 January 1926, Page 9
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