Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-11-29

He Has Thrown the Community Into a
State of Excitement.

He Has Thrown the Community Into a
State of Excitement.
The following was printed in the New
York Herald this morning:
The community of Rockaway Beach has
been thrown into a state of excitement by a
wild man. large of stature. weird in appear
ance, with fierce, blood-shot eyes, long,
flowing. II atted hair and a shaggy beard.
Nothing else is being talked about in
Rockaway. This strange being has already
assaulted persons of both sexes dashed
headlong through closed windows and gen.
orally scared everybody in the neighbor-
hood clear out of their wits.
His present supposed habitat is some
where among the sand dunes of Block
House Point. His diet consists of raw
| clans, found along the beach, and raw
chickens, the result of his raids among the
neighboring poultry yards.
The school children of Rockaway are in
mortal dread, too, because a wretch told
one of them that the DOGGY man" had al
ready eaten six little boys and girls. The
wild man was first seen about a week ago
by Red" Mcdowell and George Farrell,
who were rowing about Rockaway inlet one
morning looking for stray piles. As their
boat neared the shore a terrible looking
creature came rushing down to the beach,
brandishing an AK and uttering wild cries
The men rowed out of harms way in short
order.
They then saw the wild man enter Uncle
Dickey's shanty. Uncle Dickey is an aged
clam-digger, who lives there In the summer
time. The shanty, which is miles from any
other human habtation, is built on pfling
close to the waters edge, at the extreme
end of the point. This is about six miles
south of Rockaway proper.
Ine place is bleak and desolate in tho
extreme, consisting as it does of barre.
sand dunes, and here and there, patches of
scrubby uhderbrush Mcdowell and Farrell
returned to Rockaway and told the tale of
the wild man, but no one would believe
them.
Then John Louth, while driving through
Rockaway Park on the evening of the tay
following, saw the same strange creature
skGltlhg among the trees. While Louths
eIghteen-year-old daughter, Susie was walk
ing along the road the next day. a ragged
ana tattered tramp, as she afterward des-
cribed him, sprang at her from behind a
push, gave her a violent slap on the back.
shocking her down, and then ran off. utter
ing strange yells.
The Rockawayites by this time began to
realize that they had a maniac or something
worse IN their midst, and that something
must be done They remembered too that
the schooner Maggie Devine had gone
ashore on that point during a driving storm
rev weeks ago, and that all hands had
been saved except the mate James Rush
who was supposed to be drowned The wild
man made no further appearance until Fri
gay iaSC Ihen ne turned himself loose in
DEAD earnest, and nearly ran everybody out
of the place. WI
Bill Tweedle. a plumber early on Fri
gay morning went into the dunes shoot
ing Inc wild man rushed upon him took
his gun away from him, and hurled him
10 the ground. nearly breaking his arm.
Tweedle picked himself up and limnad
pack home. He declares that the wild man
had live chicken, whose neck he had lust
twisted and was eating raw when he came
upon him. Ned" Tracy saw the same
creature seated on the beach eating raw
CLAIMS early that same morning Tracy
ha xx-ill
Whlle John Corning, a house mover and
MS assistant, William McVay were at
work near the beach Friday afternoon, the
wllo man rushed upon them from a hiding
place and attacked them with his fists
Corning, who is a man of large propor-
ions and herculean strength, tried to grap-
PIE with the maniac, but the latter had on
an oil-sktp coat. and eluded his grasp.
Ihey last saw him making for the point al
a lively rate of speed.
Mrs. Macarthur, wife Of the Rockaway
beach road Friday evening, was seized
from behind by this same ferocious crea
ture; who began to choke her, when she
CRED cried LOT help; She would probably have
peen Killed, had not Fred" Sauer n
Swapping young fellow. rushed to her as
sistance. The wild man was finally beaten
of, but only after Mrs. Macarthur had been
undergoing treatment.
A party OF men were seated in Carrie
brants saloon, in Rockaway, at 10 O'Clock
S ssa night suddenly there was a ter
rife crash of broken glass Head first
through the window, and carrying the sash
with him. plunged the wild man He bran
dlshed large cavalry sword, with which
he smashed all the glasses and bottles with
In reach. He yelled like a demon all the
while he was caperins about the place The
men whose quiet game of cards he had dis
turbed were paralyZed with fear and as
constituent. The wild man finally rushed
out through the door, leaving his saber be-
hind a memento of his visit
Chief Macarthur has secretly organized n
posse of fifteen resolute spirits and will
probably move upon the wild mans strong
hold this afternoon. There is a growing
opinion among the residents of Rockaway
that the wild man is none other than the
mate OF the Maggie Devine, who. they
think, became crazed the day of the