The Portland daily press., 1893-08-30
SOME ODD STORIES

| Wild Man of the Maine Woods, Said TO
Be a Cannibal-In the Clutch of the
| Monster-He Is Smoked Out, Knocked
senseless and Captured.
Copyright, 1903, by American Press .&ssocia-
toni
One fall, several years ago. accompanied
| ~ Roy Lambert, made my way into the
sooded region of northern Maine, intend
ng to spend several weeks amid the pines,
he balsamic odor of which hoped would
,rove beneficial to my weak lungs. Lam
BERT is big, healthy fellow and an en-
| husiastic sportsman, 50 he went along for
he shooting he expected to find.
We selected the Moosehead region. and
vt Kineo we secured a guide, wiry, dark
laced half breed, his blood being a mixture
If French and Indian. Winego Joe had
The reputation of knowing the northwest
I'm portion of Maine so he could draw an
accurate chart of it from memory, and he
was said to be trusty and reliable.
| When we decided to ascend Moose river
10 Lake Brassau, Joe tried to dissuade us.
| wild man he be zere," declared the half
breed, shaking his head warningly HE
| keel mana re mani He do eat re humane
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| no, no!'
whats that?" cried Lambert, with sud-
len interest. "A cannibal? Oh, come now,
Joe, that's too steepr
The guide protested it was true, and then
he took from his pocket a printed poster
shat offered reward of 5000 for the cap
ture of the wild man, who was fully de-
,cribed, Identification of the creature being
,asy on account of a livid scar in the shape
Of horseshoe on his left cheek just below
The eve. He was wanted" on account Of
two murders it was supposed he had COM
mitted.
"Well, this will add spice to the trip"
laughed Lambert. IF we can capture this
| eannibalistic wild man, the 5000 will come
pretty near defraying the expenses OF this
| putting"
| So up Moose river we went, for all OF
| Winego Joe's warning We found de-
| serted wood hut on the northern arm of the
Lake Brassau and took possession of it.
| The place was pretty and convenient to the
water, and we thought ourselves well fixed
| for week or ten days. There was plenty of
small game about, and that satisfied us for
the time, although we hoped to get pop
at a bear, an Indian devil or something Of
the kind before the trip was ended.
am naturally tired man, but Lambert
is interchangeable, and it was his pleasure to
tramp, tramp, tramp, through the woods,
while I often preferred to lie on my back
beneath the trees and let the mysterious
whispering of the breezes lull me to sleep.
The third day after we reached Brassau
proved too chilly to sleep under the trees,
SO I took my afternoon nap in the cabin,
while Lambert and Joe went for tramp
through the woods.
must have been asleep two hours, when
was suddenly awakened by feeling a
clutch of iron on my throat. l opened my
eyes to see hideous face close to my own.
the expression upon it being more iendish
than anything had ever imagined. The
eyes of the creature seemed to fairly burn,
and he licked his lips with his tongue as
some wild animal might His teeth were
yellow and shaggy, while beneath his left
eye was the crimson horseshoe scar.
knew in an instant that l was in the
power of thewild man, and made adesper-
ate attempt to sit up and break away. Then
I found I was like a babe in his hands. He
growled and snarled like an animal all the
time I was trying to throw him off, but
could see he did not have the least trouble
in handling me.
The creature was so dirty that an un-
n1easant odor came from his body which
r wac covered bv hair. All the clothes he
,nore yyara comnosed of the untanned skins
of a,,;r,als and thew hnt, ma tiallv concealed
bic ,- fra,na -
Never before in all nv life had T been SO
f,;nhtoned for the STRENGTH of the crea .,,,re
showed me how helnless I really was. 1
ceased To strugole only when was COM
n1ately exhausted and then he swiftly
bonnd INV hands and feet, making me ut.
ter1y HELPLESS. After this was done he went
over tn the firenlace and scraped some Goals
IRON, the ashes' In a few minutes he had a
f;ra startaa
Watched him. wonde rine what he meant
r. do knowing well enough that it con-
oorned me- in some wav EVERY now and
tbor, be would olance at mo and he ran his
ta,,e,,s oyer his Inns each time he did so
M &c ,v.s sonoetbing 90 Greedy and savage
i, +hose chances that INV blood was frozen.
Ho,uener after a time T MANAGED to ask:
s.yUhot do Won mean TO do with mepn
ne nrodnced a long butcher knife. and
.ftar feeling of the edge grunted:
A MISUNDERSTANDING much
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