Muscogee County GaArchives News.....Tiger on Bed of Columbus Engineer, T.B. Slade - 1907 September 20, 1907 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00010.html#0002476 March 17, 2005, 7:46 pm The Marion County Patriot September 20, 1907 The Marion County Patriot, No. 36 Friday, September 20, 1907 Page Two Tiger on Bed of Columbus Engineer Columbus, Ga., Sept. 17 – News reached the city yesterday of a stirring and exciting experience of T.B. Slade, who is at present stationed in a mountain city in Mexico, supervising mining engineering. Mr. Slade’s nurse, who was holding his sleeping son, went in the house to lay the child on the bed when she discovered a big tiger on the bed. Backing out of the room the woman gave the alarm and Mr. Slade having no other weapon, picked up a spade and went in the room. The tiger did not attack him, and he passed to his own room where he secured a revolver, and returning fired five shots at the beast before it was finally killed. The tiger in its struggles, tore the furniture in the room into fragments. Mr. Slade had the beast skinned and will keep its hide as a trophy for his infant son. The baby is the grandson of Representative Slade of Muscogee County. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/muscogee/newspapers/tigeronb2022nw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb