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Alligator

Lumberton, N. C. June 18.

Extraordinary and Shocking occurence.

     On Friday afternoon, the 7th inst. Mrs. Ratley was riding across the Gum Swamp, [about 1 miles from this place] where the water is but little more than knee deep, the boat on which she rode was attacked by an Alligator, and in the struggle, Mrs. Ratley was thrown and the moment she fell, the monster seized, bit, and mangled her most horridly, of which wounds she died on Monday evening last. Her husband and brother were near at hand and ran to her assistance, and in rescuing the woman, one of the men recieved a blow from the alligator without sustaining much injury, and after shooting seven or eight times they succeeded in killing him; he measured 11 feet in length.

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