St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-20
CAUGHT A WHAT is IT.
Thrilling Tale of a Dakota
Man at the Merchants
Hotel.
0d
Encounter With a Mysterious
Animal Unknown to
Science.
rl
Final Capture and DISPOSE
ton Of the Unseen What
ia YOu-Call-It.
Arrival Of Two Officials Sheds
Light on the Strange
- Story.

! DIX, w ullCl " q CA4Oi'h
man as he settled himself back OH one
| of the comfortable seats in the lobby OF
the Merchants.
Il have just returned from visit to
| Bismarck S. d., where L have been
making an investigation of one OF the
most interesting affairs it has been my
lnck to meet with in the history of my
professional career. l have i'll my
possession cast, made in plaster, of an
unearthly creature which was found in
a house in the vicinity of Bismarck.
was written to in regard 10 the existence
of the strange thing and it was alive
at the time of my arrival in Bismarck.
1t died day or two after l got there.
If you care to hear the story | will tell
it 20 you.
about three weeks ago a man who
lives in Bismarck, or, rather. in the i'm
mediate vicinity of that city, will not
give his name, by request from him
rented house located OH farm twelve
miles from the city. He was making
plans for living on the farm during the
coming summer in company with his
wife and family. He went to the farm,
accompanied by friend, for the pur-
pose of seeing that everything was in
order, and expected to return in the
course of day or two TO Bismarck. His
friend was employed in one of the
banks of Bismarck, and he took the
trip with the expectation of enjoying
hunt for day or two. They arrived
at the house all right in the
course of tie forenoon, and while
the banker, whom [ will call John
Wilkins as that is not his name, went
out to kill some cartridges, the other
man, whom | will call Allen, went
through the house. The building had
been furnished in an elegant manner
by an Englishman, who started ranch
there. but he had moved away after liv-
ing there for about year without CIV
Ing anv excuse for so doing. lie iele
orders with his agent to dispose VI snt
property at any price he coulo e'V'
did not give any reason for dqlnSS tod old
However. some OF the servants ha9 W.
stories of the house being hauhte9, "n Of
they,ascribed the precipltate leaEi"@ All
the Englishman to this cause., t1on
kinds of stories were III clIEu ,'t tba
about. the mysterious SOUNDS tho latter
house, but Wilkins and Alien: em1 IN nth" the
being a physician, did NOT pellI'9 81 tho
supernatural. They laugneu q" az the
stories, and called the teilers u
yarns old women, after the custom Oh
the Indians.
sAIen made trip through the house
and found in one of the rooms guam
tity of bed clothing, carefully packed
away in the drawers of bureau. lie
proceeded to make up TWO beds in ad-
Joining rooms, and then waited for the
return of his friend. They cooked sup
per-all Dakota men can keep their
own houses proDerly-and after good
: smoke they retired. Allen took one OF
the rooms and Wilkins slept in an ad-
Joining room. They were tired. and
went to sleep almost Immediately AFTER
touching their pillows.
"Allen was awakened during the
night by a strange sensation. lie could
not see anything, as the room was DARK
but he felt that there was something In
the room. A strange and uncannY Ieel-
Ing took possession of him, and the cold
nresnirafion stood out OH his forehead
in large drops. 1t was not man; he
could feel that, but it was some un.
earthly presence which he could not
helm but know was there. He sat up I'D
bed, tried to light a candle which ne
knew must be there, but his hands
shook so that he could not find the
| matches. He was frightened, very
much so, although he was known as
brave man, and had been in more than
| one personal combat during early days
of the settlement of the Dakotas. Sud
| denly he felt that something was
| coming near to him. He could
feel that something was III
| his immediate vicinity, when suddenly
some body dropped onto his breast;
The feeling of the thing was cold ana
clammy. 1t was not very large. but II
| was possessed of an immense and super
human strength. The skinny fingers
seized his throat with death grip, and
| he was at first powerless. The feeling
that he was dealing with something OF
an unnatural form unnerved him, Du
as he felt his breath being stopped by
the pressure of the fingers Of the beins
on his windpipe he was aroused TO
sense of his danger, he threw OH the
lethargv which seized his muscles, anC
gave Shout for help. He seized thu
skinny hands which clasped his neck
and tried with all his strength to un
loosen their grip. Finally, atter tef
rible struggle he gained the mastery o
the strange being, and, clasplng TIT
wrists of the creature in his hands, III
waited for the arrival of his friend
whom he could hear stirring III an ad
Joining room. Soon the door opened
and Wilkins stepped into the room;
my God, have you got a MT? IL
I asked, as he held his candle In the 81
above his head and peered at-Aller
I The candle gave good light III III
room, aud Allen looked at the cfeatur
which had tried to choke him. Horrors
: There was nothing there. Nothln
which he could see, although ne coul
feel the struggles of the thing and hea
| il breathe. His fingers clasped some
thing and the forms of the wrists VINE
| he held could be seen in the ALI, put,
his ewes, nothing was there.
"'Get something so that L can tie IL
he gasped, as he was almost out
/; breath from struggling.
-a"Iie what?' asked Wilkins with
laugh. You had better go back to>be
l as YOU are dreaming
n s.Burf am not. Can't you see wnel
i my fingers were clasping somethlni
y It can't be seen, but there is somethln
|, there. My God, man, L am not Graz
: Look at the bites on my arms AL
= wrists where this creature HAS bite
me. Feel of it yourself
) "Wilkins stepped up to his 1riend i