The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-12-18
a HUMAN MoNsrosrrY. !: :

~ a HUMAN MONSTOsITY.
Donkey's Head on Mans Body-A
Strange Case Of Malfor,nation.
+ At No. 786 Freeman avenue, q cou-
#plc 0f doors above BaHk ct Get, there
resides, says the Cincinnati Enqntyer,
an aHed and respectable German and
his wife, who make living by keep
Ing family grocery and provision
store. Tho husbands name Is Philip
VOlz. Mr.. VOiZ is a large, fleshv.
good natured, honest, temperate Ger
man, who la content to mind his own
business and deal out to his customers
all the commodities usually found IN q
grocery and meat store, save cigars
tobacco and liquor. His wife Is a
kind pleasant old lady-probably sixty
And the people IN the neighborhood
call her ''grandmothcr." She is very
neat and clean in her appearance, and
is one Of those sensible bodies people
Hike to talk to, either OH business or
merely for pleasure.
This good couple arc the parents Of
one OF the most wonderful specimens
OF humanity that tho world ever saw,
alId certainly the most wonderful over
known to eXist In Cincinnati. It is q
man having the head Of donkey on
his shoulders. 1t almost always hap
pens that nonstrositics born OF either
women or animals die shortly after
birth, IT born alive at all, but this is an
exception to the rule, for the subject
OF this article is alive now, and is
thirty years old. The name Of tho un-
fortunate creature IL George Volz.
When visited by our reporter, SAYS tho
Enquirer, the cripple stared at linn In
an unpleasant way and began to kick
Violently, rs though he were trying to
got at the stranger, the while his
hands, or what correspond to a human
bclug's hands, pounded each other
with frightful rapidity and apparent
rlclousness. The reporter finally be-
came sufficiently at ease to mako a
close observation, and he saw that tho
face OF the cripple was as near the
shape OF donkey "a could be, the
only feature that at all approached the
shape OF tho genus homo being the
nose.
This was noticed to be more promi-
nent than that Of q genuine specimen
Of the donkey, but the outline was ex-
octly the same. The mouth could not
be told from donkey's, and wnon it
observing thc upper part Of the face
and the head, tho resemblance was OK
aot. The head is very large and near
ly square like the donkoy's. 1t is Gov
cred with coarse black hair, rs stit If and
straight as ever seen on the animal
referred to. The eyes are the eyes Of
Il donkey to perfection; but the most
perfect resemblance to the animal arc
the ears. They stand straight up and
run out to Il sharp peak, in the exact
shape OF tho ears Of the donkey. They
are about three inches long, but arc
not covered with hair. The express
sion-the lover portion Of the face-is
covered with Il short growth Of hair,
which is sheared bv the mother ut
regular intervals. Tho body of the
cripple is also covered with a growth
of long, stiff, coarse lair.
The reporter, noticing the fact that
the upper pari of the head between
the ears WIS much larger than the
lower part, at first thought this was
due to the growth of hair. In order
to satisfy himself on this point he. adj
vanccd toward George to place his
hands upon}his, head. AS soon as he
got viii. range he. :recci, cd a couple
OF vicious Kicks from one Of the mcp-
at the same tia1e HsS; and she also "io vas
kicked. The reporter, however, sue
cccdcd in getting his hands OH
Georges head and found that the
shape noticed was the shape of the
skull and was not caused by the hair.
All OF the hairs grow upward. AS the
visitor stood looking at the object be-
fo:c him, il kept swinging it's head
from side to side, aud the expression
of the face was precisely that Of the
donkey. George counot talk ut all.
tie makes no sound that approaches to
the human speech.
Georges mother informed the re-
porter that lc had sufficient intelli-
gence to comprehend enough to have
his wants supplied, which were few.
lie expressed wish for a drink or
something to cat by signs. Georges
hands were mentioned above. There
are really no hands, but the stumps of
three or four fingers in the aggregate
arc attached to what would be the
hands If he were a perfectly formed
human being. The shoulders are very
narrow and the spinal column ia not
sufficiently strong to enable George to
stand up long at time. lie crawls
when he wishes to move about. One
OF his legs Is that Of human, but the
other is shapcless. George is power
less to wag his ears. He eats the
ordinary food that is served on the
table. Mrs. Volz stated that his ap-
petite was good, usually, and that he
was allotted a place nj the family
board: Sometimes he refused to eat
the substantial food Of an every day
meal, and he was then fed on cake or
some other dclicacy.