Sharpshooter sent to kill man-eating lion becomes dinner

A coach, number 12, built in 1899 as first-class, is which Superintendent of Police Charles Ryall was dragged out while sleeping and killed by a man-eating lion at Kima station in June 1900, currently at the Outdoor section of Nairobi Railway Museum. [Nanjinia Wamuswa, Standard]

A mission to kill a man-eater at Kima Railway station went awry when the man tasked to slay the lion dropped his guard and dozed off.

Sir George Whitehouse, chief engineer of Uganda Railway in Gazette Notice of July 1, 1900 had offered a reward of 100 sterling pounds for the extermination of the man-eater.