Rampaging tiger cat shot dead

No, not in San Francisco this week, but Jamaica Plain 100 years ago. Also, it was a striped tabby, not a Siberian giant:

A big tiger cat, believed to have been affected by rabies, that had recently terrorized the aristocratic neighborhood of Sigourney st and Glen road, Jamaica Plain, was sent to its long sleep yesterday afternoon by revolver shots fired by patrolmen McAdams and Riley. ...