FELINE KILLER
HEAVY LOSSES OF SHEEP. The “Killer of Helvellyn,” which has destroyed scores of lambs and sheep in the mountains of the English Lake District, has been shot dead by a farmer. It was not, as suspected, a dog, but a cat, 3ft. long. Mr John Dargue, a Westmorland sheep-breeder, who had lost a great number of sheep, organised a search by armed farmers. After hours of waiting, Mr Dargue saw a dark object in the shadows of a wall of his farm. The animal leaped to the top of the wall, and from 20 yards Mr Dargue fired and the animal bounded out of sight. Next morning the animal was found dead in a field from gunshot wounds. Shepherds in the district have recognised the cat as one of a number which has been living wild in the woods all winter.
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Southland Times, Issue 25342, 22 July 1935, Page 11
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143FELINE KILLER Southland Times, Issue 25342, 22 July 1935, Page 11
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