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Name: HUMPHREYS, R.

Book Reference: Percival, Drumkey

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Percival - Leopard - Voi - The late Mr R. Humphreys was the victim, and the scene of the encounter was the dak bungalow. Humphreys told me that he had come out of the lighted room into the dark verandah. His eyes unaccustomed to the gloom, he was just able to see something spring at him, and, thrusting out his hands, he seized and fell on top of it, shouting to his servant to bring his revolver as he did so. He held on lying upon the leopard until the pistol was put into his hand, when he shot it. Humphreys was a heavy and powerful man and his theory was that, falling as he did on top of the beast, a small one, his weight broke its back; thus, of course, the hind quarters were paralyzed.
Drumkey 1909 Directory of Residents - R.W. Humphreys, Nairobi

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