Chandler - This Italian hunter and trader was attacked and killed by the Lugwara tribe between Wadelai and Dufile on the Nile in 1908. Apparently Bucheri, a mean sort, was given to molesting African women. According to Tony Sanchez-Arino (1995), he also cheated the tribesmen out of money that had been promised for provisions. A party of avenging warriors raided Bucheri's camp in the Lado Enclave and chased him through the forest. As he was struggling across a jungle stream, one of the warriors shot him with an old muzzleloader. They carried him back to their village, injured but alive, and selectively cut pieces off him until he died. Either Bucheri or an Austrian hunter, Fleischer, was among the first to capture a baby white rhino for exhibit in European zoos. Most sources attribute the feat to the Austrian but at least one (Boyes, 1927) alludes to Bucheri. Noted hunter Robert Foran claimed to have been told about the calf directly by Fleischer himself. Boyes reported that Bucheri (who he does not mention by name, but the association is fairly clear) was killed in a dispute over the purchase of milk for the rhino. In the same paragraph Boyes mentioned another unnamed hunter, a 'German' who was killed by an elephant around the same time in the Congo. This brief statement corresponds with what is known about Fleischer's death. Given Boyes's reputation for innaccuracy, it is more likely that Fleischer was the man in question in the rhino incident and that Boyes, writing 20 years after the fact, was simply confused about which of the two men owned the rhino calf. On the other hand, Boyes was in the area at the time of both deaths and apparently knew Fleischer pretty well.