I just killed him on my "hardcore" character at day 36, and subsequently died to 2 wolves while mining copper (too close to mountains edge I guess).

I stopped to beat on a copper node, with a brute, a shamen and 2 or 3 regular greydwarves in tow. A two star Skeleton came from the opposite direction so I thought I'd be clever let the 2 star skelly do some of my heavy work.

He managed to kill the shaman but the brute made quick work of him so I decided to start shooting them all w/ my bow and at that moment 2 wolves came out from behind the trees, one shot everything and got me running. It was a quick death.