Witherspoon is one of the officers on the hunting trip near Rangoon. He insists on shooting a baby monkey despite Dalton's annoyance that this might scare the tiger away. Later, he accidentally shoots a young Burman boy, thinking the rustling in the bushes is made by a tiger. Witherspoon comes across as a trigger-happy, rather reckless man, who is far too intent on procuring attractive animal skins as hunting trophies. He does not appear to care much about the local people.
