The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-01
A WILD MAN OF THE WOODS.

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PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 3O.-Onc of the
most remarkable cases Of dementia ever
discovered 10 now causing the residents of
the srarsely settled country
Birdsboro and Pottstown no end OF terror.
A man who h Internationally wild ts
roaming about in the woods I'm that 500
ton and has been seen mt least half a
dozen times within thep past month.
He was first seen about four months ago
by a little girl named Alice Marshall, who
lives with her parents at Saratoga, about
two miles east of P~ottstown. The little
girl, whose father is n laborer i'm the en-
pioy of the Philadelphia and Reading
railroad. went early one morning
to the farm occupied by James
McComb to buy some butter. While pass
ing along the road she saw a weird.look-
from one shadow to another in the wouNis.
She dropped her butter pail and ran to
her father of what she had seen, aud TAX
ing his shotgun from the wall he went tn
look for the strange being, scarcely he
His efforts were futile, hut the story told
by his little daughter was so sincere that
he tried the next day with much better
Before starting out he called at the
house of William Burnam and induced
him to g" along R;AndS9hn..ln nall Inv. way b.iTsen n
glimpse of the wild man.. sitting ON Ia
trunk of a fallen tree. and, as he did not
him. The man was fully six feet i'm hight
and has "a brown beard almost To his waist.
His hair was dark and long, He wore a
greasy aud the trousers were $50 old they
hung in ibbons about his limbs, His
shoes were old and very heavily soled.
The strange creature was i'm "a Thought
dry twigs and branches and
placing them IL 2 heap, evidently fer the
look very dangerous the two men APP
preached him, but as soon as he heard the
Hing OF their feet he stood up. gazcd a,
them for n moment and then fled like IL
deer. He was soon lost in the dense
growth of trees, and although the men
spent the remainder of the day i'm hunting
him me could not he found.
The story was widely circulated by the
two men, but was disbclieved at first on
account of its seeming im~i,ossibility. The
matter went around for some time and
was finally brought to the attention Of the
, Frech, of Pottstown, was mt the head of
an a exploring party "a and %,d ihs X. st 1;,S n "a,
and capture him il possible. Among the
men were McComb. Burnam and Mar
shall.
when they ~nconntercd the man i'm the
woods, near Saratoga. He was then APP
proacIing and. much to their surprise. lie
preached within fifty feet of him. when
he commanded them i'm military style To
halt. which they did. The wild man wac
from u tree. and the hunters saw from
his massive proportions. which were out
lined by his tightly clinging rags, that he
! O"I'm crazy" he shouted to them. Id
mot modest me or I'll kill every man al
YOU"
Then he started tn walk away slowly
hut the crowd advanced IN him and hs
fled as IL frightened. The purs,iers and
trees and heavy underground for seyeInl
hours. but his superior knowledge OF the
ground assisted him i'm Guiding capture
He was ollowed by his footsteps through
the woods to the edge of n high precipics
of rock overlooking the tracks of the
Philadelphia 4 adi railroad, bctwecl
Saratoga and POttstown, where all trace
cliff.
Where this wild creature must he is q
mystery, but a rnnior has been circulated
i'm P~ottstown to the effect that he crossed
over the Schuylkill river to- the other side
A man whose name could not be Learned
told "a crowd i'm "a Pottstown tavern tina
he know who the man was. He said In
was crazy and imagined that he ought Il
Same man says that every few days h.
leaves provisions in u certain place in TIN
woods and when he returns he next day III
finds that they have been removed. On,
day he left some articles of wearing apIairc
with the food. hut while the edibIcs wer'
been placed. In recognition of this kind
ness the wild man leaves some evidence
of gratefulncss.
"One day. said the stranger tn TIN
crowd i'm the tavern, ~ left him. wit
other things, n jar of preserved peaches
On the next day the jar was still ther'
and also u large piece of" white sandston
on which was lettcred. evidently with
piece of soft coal. the single wor
Thanks
II il thought that the man was never
resident of the neighborliood, but that Il
wandered there after escaping from som
asylum.
Butte Mining Notes.
William L. Robbins and wife have dces
ed to- James Hughes, for $50, all their il
tercst i'm Copper Bottom n i'm the Cam