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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXII, Issue 8872, 10 February 1943, Page 4

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ENGAGED KILLER AS GUIDE INCIDENT IN NEW GUINEA Tiger, regarded us Hie most dange us aboriginal killer ever to roam nrtli-wosf Australia, recently guid, Seotly"' Mcl-aclilin. cook at \\i.<:. c-.-niip, on ;i UK) miles i.e. li i : nun Hi,. Daly River to the Vieioi Tiger was released from Fanny P: : a o!. Darwin, on Poluaiary I'.', afi In- fir-t Japanese air raid on (! own, after serving eight years of i l*o sentence for murder. MVLaehlin had to get from !>■: 'Waters River settlenu n 1 to Pi a haw 's Station, on the Vic-1 nriri Pi\ . ■rgontly and di cidod that the ipti.-ke ■ ay \va-' to go overland. Tiger was liv'm g i n a nnf i \'e >•;. • • i tlio Daly. Because of Tiger's !.• cord, M (T.acli fin was warned again oing with him, bill he decided to ial McLnchlm loot; only omergenc\ r ■ens with liim and a pea rifle. Tig, was armed with a spear. They lived oil' the country, slmot'ni •11 < i spearing crocodiles, wliicli Tig, "Tiger didn't make one nasty iim>\ i own vt\< me duri n g the whole t rip. Mci.achau said. "Just ihe same, always kept my eye on him. 1 silw:i.< -aniped with my rifle loaded near m ml wa.s always ready. Actually. '■* had a lot of fun." The bush trekked through w: Tiger's country. It was there, on 1! hauler of the Fitznituirice Riser in P l ' if Hie bloodiest murders in NToithoi Territory history.