KILLED BY A TIGER.

Otago Witness, Issue 1244, 2 October 1875, Page 5

KILLED BY A TIGER.

The London Times of a recent date says : Intelligence has just been received of the death of Mr George S. Dobbie, Mysore Kevenue Survey, at Shemogah, in the Mysore territory, on the tfth of May, from injuries received on the 2nd, from a* tiger he had mortally wounded. On the 2nd of May, while Air Dobbie was in camp near Malur about 27 miles from Shemogah,' he received intelligence of a tiger having been seen at a place about six miles distant. He at once proceederl to the spot and commenced beating tha jungle in the usual manner. The tiger broke from the jungle at a place near where he was posted, and immediately Mr Dobbie nred, severely wounding the beast, which slunk off into a thicket close by On hearing the report of the rifle the beatera stopped beating. Mr Dobbie called his peon Syeti Mustaffa, to collect the beaters and bring them all round to him, which occupied about half-an-hour ; he then remarked to the peon, " I have hit the tiger very hard and he has gone into that thicket," pointing to one a short distance off. He then, with the peon, proceeded towards the thicket, picking up the track of the tiger by the marks of blood on the ground. Cutting their way through the jungle they soon came near the place where the creature was lying mortally wounded ; the peon saw him, and, pointing to the spot, said, "He is still alive." Mr Dobbie replied, "I cannot see him." The peon again pointing to the y-lace where the wounded beast lay, a ud, "Take care, sir ho is lookmg at us, auri is about to come at us;" and immediately aftt-rwarda called out "He is crouching for a spring, so look out !" Mr Dobbie replied, « I can't see him, but I'm all ready, and the next moment the tiger ! charged. Mr Dobbie rired both barrels of I his rifle (snap shots), and broke the fore-arm joEj oE the tiger, but did not stop him ; the beast 1 Wa3 .7, ery bad from kis wo ana:a, and possibly could barely see, for ho passed between Mr Dobbie and the peon, almost touching both of them. The former struck the tiger while passing with his discharged rifle which caused it to turn upon him ; and! during the desperate struggle with the enraged animal which ensued, he tripped and fell, and was immediately seized and bitten twice oa the right thigb. The tiger then left him, and fell dead before it had gone ten yards. Mr Dobbie got up, looked at the dead tiger, and walked to the top of the using grounds, and from there was carried back to his camp. He thought but little of his injuries, and during the next two days transacted his business. On obtaining a palanquin and bearers from Shemogah, for which he had sent, he returned to that station, on Wednesday, arriving in .good spirits, apparently doing we ll, an a was considered by his friends there almost out of danger. He was slightly excited and feverish, and was, therefore, not encouraged to speak of his encounter with the tiger. He slept tolerably well, but awoke about^ 4 o'clock in the morning in a very excited state, and, notwithstanding all the efforts of those attending him, he rapidly becaiUH delirious and died in about two hours from the time of awaking. A correspondent who knew Mr Dobbie well writes : — " The State has lost an able and promising young officer, who was devoted to hia pro. fe-sion. and who never flinched from hig duty however hard the work might be, He was considered by officers of his own department as a very rising man. He was a keen and daring sportsman, and oad laid low many of the feline r?,, , () . nl y a * csv days previous he had killed a tigress under similar circumstances to those now narrated. Ha was a man of indomitable oouiago, of great physique ; bufe wnat aro those against a savage bs-ast like a wounue.l tiger? The odds were aadlv against him when he incautiously made bis last at* tack. A gloom spread over the place where tins sad accident terminated the career of one much beloved and esteemed by those who knew him, at tha early age of 31 He? r^i,- th V ld , c , 8t BOD of (joiuliel O. Staple

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