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I think is still in his possession. Any further information he will cheerfully 

 give you. His address is George G. Hastings, Bellefonte, Pa." 



" There may be one or two in Clearfield Co., but the Askey boys and I 

 killed two 2 years ago." — Nelson, 1893. "Those panther skins, with two 

 others, went to Germany with a lot of other furs, by Schreader & Co. I did 

 not kill the panther ; it got in my bear trap, and was dead when I came to 

 the trap." — Nelson, 1895. 



Crawford Co. — " In 1833, J. and P. Vasbinder killed 3 on Boone's Moun- 

 tain."— McKnight's History Crawf. Co., 1898. 



Elk Co. — Last one killed nearly 40 years ago in Elk Co. — Luhr. Found 

 near Ridgway as late as 1877. — Hallock, Sportsman's Gazetteer, 1877, p. 140. 



Forest Co. — " Formerly numerous in Kingsley Twp. and at Panther Rocks^ 

 15 miles above Tionesta on French Creek. Last killed about 1848." — Irwin. 



Lancaster Co. — About 1830, a stray panther was seen or supposed to have 

 been seen. — See Rathvon's Hist. Lane. Co., 1869, p. 501. 



Luzerne Co. — From 1808 to 1820, Luzerne Co. paid bounties on panther 

 scalps, $1822. — upwards of 50 being killed in i year. "There are no pan- 

 thers in this county at present, except occasionally one may be met with in 

 the great swamps or on the North Mountain." — Pearce, Annals Luzerne Co.^ 

 i860, pp. 489, 490. 



Lycoming Co. — "About this time [1840] a Dr. Reinwalt was called from 

 his home at Liberty Corners, Tioga Co., to visit a patient at English Center, 

 Lycoming Co., five miles distant. The Dr. went on first, taking his gun with 

 him, a double-barreled rifle, and as he did not return when expected, a party 

 went in search ; but as a heavy body of snow had fallen before the search 

 began, his body was not found for nearly two weeks. It was lying near a 

 large butternut tree. The wounds on the body indicated that a panther had 

 killed him. One barrel of his gun had been discharged and the other barrel 

 had missed fire. The inference was, that a panther was perched on a hori- 

 zontal limb of the butternut tree when discovered by the doctor, that a shot 

 from his rifle wounded the brute, when it sprang from the Umb upon the 

 unfortunate man. 



" Liberty, or what is more generally known as the Block-House, from a house 

 built of hewn logs by the first settlers, as a protection from the Indians, was 

 settled by the Germans, or Pennsylvania Dutch. They were a superstitious 

 people, and believed in witchcraft. If a good marksman made a poor shot, 

 he attributed his poor luck to witchcraft, and applied the remedy : shooting 

 a silver ball from his gun. The winter following the doctor's death, Jacob 

 Sechrist and a Mr. Messner, while hunting deer, discovered the trail of a 

 panther, and presuming that they had found the track of the brute that had 

 killed their friend, Dr. Reinwalt, they vowed vengeance. Returning home 

 for provisions, the next morning, with their witch-proof rifles, they took the 



