Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1850-03-04

About year since an account was pub.
lished in the Victoria Advocate respecting
strange creature, whose tracks had been
discovered on The banks Of the Navidad
tnear Iexana. The. lopt.naasks of-lhi;
4 q report was circulated to the effect that 0
wild woman had made her retreat in the
forests Of the Nayidad. Within a few
weeks several attempts have been made Ii
capture this singular being. Mr.. Glascock
pursued it several days with dogs, afdsai
one time approached,so near it as to cast d
lasso upon its shoulders, II, however,
with great adroilness eluded the snare, and
fed 10 a. dense lhicket, where it could not
traced. Mr.. Glascock states that he
was near small prairie enclosed by the
border forests Of the river, when the crea.
ture emerged from the woods, and ran
across The prairie in full view. 1t was a.
bout five feet high, resembling .human
being, but covered with hair of reddish
brown color. In its hand it held a stick
about six feet long, which it fourished from
side to side, as if to regulate its motion,
and aid it when running at full speed. Its
head and neck are covered with very long
hair, which streamed backward in the wind.
1t ran with the speed of a deer, and was
soon out of sight. The dogs pursued it,
and came SO close upon it at small creek,
that it was compelled to drop its stick,
which was takea by lis pursuers This
stick is about six feet long, straight ano
smooth as if polished with glass. Several
other persons have repeatedly seen the crea
ture, and they all concur in representing il
as a human being, but so covered with
sh,ggy hair as to resemble an ourangou.
tang. 1t has frequently approached the
houses of the settlers in the neighborhooe
during the night, and stole various articles
among other things it carried off guam
tity oftowels, one or two books, and has al
so taken several pigs. One Of its nests wa.
found in the forrest, in which were severa
napkins, folded up just as they were taker
from the house, and Bible, marked. J. J
Wright. A bill for washing was enclosed
in the Bible. The foot-marks of thi
strange being have often been traced ii
the bottom Of the N.avidie, but it has. eludet
all attempts to capture it. The old settlers
in that section say that the foot-marks have
been noticed for ten or twelve years, anc
that several years ngo there were othe
foot-marks, indicating that three of thes'
creatures were in company.
Within the last year the foot marks o
only one have been noticed. Mr. Glas
cock intends to collect pack of goo
hounds and resume the pursuit, and he i
confident that he will succeed in capturin,
it. He has incurred considerable expense
and has exposed himself to great hardship
, and danger 10 secure it, thus evincing hi
full belief in the identity of this mysteriou
being. 1t is not improbable that during tn
war Of the Revolution when the people @
that section were driven from their home
by the victorious army Of Urea, some chill
e dren might have been secreted in the wood
e or left there, and their relations never re
turning, have become like wild beasts
clothed with hair, and feeding upon hert
and such small animals as they could car
ture or pllfer from the settlers.-Housto
: (Iexas) Telegraph. ~. ESQ