St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-01-18
HAIRY AND HOOFED.
A Remarkable Human Mon
strosity Is Born in Nc
Leod County.
An Animal With Hoofs, q
Hairy Body, Claws and
a Tail.
Many People Believe That II
Is a Judgment Upon the
Mother,
Because She Made q Blasphe-
nous Remark About the
Savior.
Snecia1 IN the GIobe

Special 10 the Globe.
HOWARD LAKE. Minn., Jan. 17.-Oi
all the hideous human malformations
ever heard of in the state the fiveweeks-
old offspring of Charles and Sarah
Miller, of Mcleod county, is the most
atrocious.. Accounts of horrible vaga-
ries of nature have from time to time
been published, but the awful hoodoo OF
the village of Plato outdoes all pre-
vious horrors. The Millers are young
couple. The husband is a shoemaker,
doing fairly good business, and the
Millers had every reason TO be well sat.
isfied with the world as they found it
until five weeks ago. when Mrs. Miller
gave birth to the nondescript Great
ure whose presence has Mortified
the community and conferred upon
the parents an unenviable reputation.
The Catholic residents of the village
and county are in a ferment of excite
ment as result of the statement made
by Mrs. Miller anent happenings pre-
ceding the birth of the monStrosity.
Two months ago, three weeks prior to
Mrs. Miller's confinement, Jewish
peddler came to the house selling col
ored oleographs of the crucifxion. He
was told to go about his business, but
pressed his wares in such manner that
Mrs. Miller became exasperated and de-
clared that she would sooner have the
devil in her house than the
Portrait of Her Savior.
The full meaning OF the preference
she had expressed did not dawn on the
unfortunate woman until she was
brought face to face with the frightful
creature to which she had given birth.
This child-Or,as many persons believe,
this deyil-was born with hair all over
its body nearly two inches long. The
face and hands even are not exempt;
they are similarly coated. The features
are absolutely fiendish in expression.
and the eyes shine like two little beads
from beneath a pair OF shaggy bfows.
1t has tail eighteen inches long.
This enfant terrible was provided at its
birth with full set of teeth. Two
short, sharp horns protrude from the
skull, and the claw-like hands are fur
nished with claws like those of an
eagle. The feet are exactly like the
hoOfs of goat, and the hair covering
the body is as coarse as goats hair, and
similar in appearance. The creature
could crawl from its birth, and, refusing
the natural sustenace OF normal child
of like age, il left it's mothers side,
sliding on it's hands and knees
all over the house, devourIng
any scraps to be found. This child
devil Is now five weeks old. and has
already shown itself as ferOcious beast.
1t snaps sayagely. at the restraining
hand, and the facial expression pro-
duced by an effort to curb the tenden-
cieS of the creature Is
Inexpressibly FrIghtfuI.
The mother is almost an imbecile as a
result of her horrible experience, and
the father acts as though crazed. Ply
sicians are pouring into the village in
dozens, and people from surrounding
counties are arriving constantly, all
anxious to see the freak. The authori-
ties threaten to arrest and heavily fine
any person known to spread the report;
the condition of the mother men
tally and physically being ex-
tremely precarious indeed. A girl
working in the house, whose
name IS withheld by request, yesterday
encountered the five-weeks-Old fiend
on its way down stairs. She endeavored
to carry it back to the room from which
it had escaped, when the creature at
tackled her so fiercely that she was COM
PEELED to knock it down with pitcher
she was carrying. 1t is impossible that
the efforts at concealment can prove
successful, as the facts have been COM
municated by local physicians to their
co-workers i'll the cities, and every train
brings new additions to the crowd al
ready at Plato. The Catholic religion
is predominant there, and the members
Of that church are firm in the belief
that the freak has been sent as judg-
mant on the mother for her unholy SEN
timent,