The sun., 1896-10-30
FER0CIOUS JERSEY HOGS.
THEY RUN Wild AND SCARE MEN
yEaR GREENWOOD LAKE.

.I.h. u. Mor.ey'. Hard Lot Up n Tree and
~, rurbt Down tho Mountain Side,
a.. rInes in Hot Pursuit-Hnve the Hogs
a., rom GarrIuon or Has He Got Them
rboro,sa brood Of wild hogs loose on Ster-
,,,r Mountain, on tho east side of Green
vood Lake, and they are spreading terror
among the natives ,,,-
Ahout fortnight ago wild-lookinG man
hrrst into the .bhrroom OF Charles Augermil-
Icr,, Holland House, and, dropping into
chair. shouted for stimulnnts. The man was
,ppnrently nearly half dead from terror as ne
glanced apprchensively toward tho door Aug
srmillor did not hasten to attend TO the strsn-
rer. because ho knows something OF New YORK.
and has cn.people.go into dummy nus 10 Ret
. ina, yhiskey, but when tho wild-lookins
s,,,,or s,hed A quarter from his ragged trou-
,.r..nd throw It ,on the billiard table q sud-
SIasn change came over the landlord. and he ap-
&,rNcboi tho stranger with.a bottle OF whiskey
Ind 4 glass, saying:
/"I thought maybe you was working the
I,nake-bite racket, and it's too late In the year
for that to go hero. 1t works. sometimes In
the sum NOR, but it don't.go now. Tho frost
has driven ths.snakes into their holes"
The stranger sulped down a glass Of whis-
key. gasped, and said In a husky voice;
ut may have druv in the snakes, but ID
bain,t druy in the wild hogs. and they are
bound 10 got hungrer yet when tho ground
freezes and they can't root no longer"
Then the,stranrer told how he was coming over
the mountains from Tuxedo, when ho TOOK
short cut to reach the road.and Eot.mixed up-in
tho woods. lleisaid that he reached the TOP
of n mountain from which he could get n
pl,mpse of the lake, and thinking it was Ster-
ling Pond. he put on Ppurt and started for the
NJ III about
balf way down when a lot Of hogs came rum
ming after him. Having no weapon Of any
Kind he climbed a tree. He said tho hogs
stayod around that tree for two hours, looking
Mt him with hungry eyes. He thought that
they would camp down there and stay until
he dropped from fatigue. but they had leader
with them in an old boar, with tusks two
inches long. and at the end Of tho second hour
this leader withdrew with the whole drove.
After waiting q few minutes the man came
down the tree and ran down the glade, feeling
sure that he was free from danger. He had
gone about quarter of mile, and had reached
o treeless opening. when he heard clatter be-
hind him. Looking back he saw. the hogs COM
Ing after him, led by the big boar. Terror lent
speed TO his legs. and he ran without needing
where he put his feet.
All went well for few minutes, and then
he missed his footing and fell headlonE. He
him, and after sliding fifteen feet in the loose
feet down a ledge as steep as a church roof.
fetching up In q patch Of young sprous.
Through these he dashed without heed of sap
lings and briers, and in u few minutes burst
into Augermilor's place with his clothes IN
tattera. He said that he wore q pretty fair
suit of clothbs when he started on hts rambles.
In reply TO questions put by Gid Storms,
Rye Zabriskie, and Others the stranger said
that he was John P. Morsoy, and that he be-
Inn n r
ley. he said that he cav fully fifty hogs az
once. and was So sure that there were more than
about tho hog. during the summer, and, one
man said that he had come upon q patch where
they had been Eoosns Il rsmatnSd for one e;
Morsey went on his way to Warwick after
going to tho head Of the lake on the Anita.
The women trembled when their husbands
the and lon the OF de
Saturday and went right up the glade. Before
no TSe !Tne1 vhoe % side I Of the moulsain was torn
up Just as 4 It had been plouahed." he said
GOT pretty rear the top Of the mountain and
heard fearful grunting A minute later q
aoys Of the hogs out Of ths and
big rock. and climbed up on it like q chipmunk
Shells sadsd fs pSi nfa Srd shes
hogs couldn't get mp the side of that rock.
ing me- and stood and counted them. There
was Just seventeen in tho drove. and n big
tusker was In tho lead. / let go both barrels.
and they didn't stop for any moro, but turned
and SCAR pered of. Then came home. I'm
going TO get Fred Clark and borrow q couple OF
rides and 90 up for pork tomorrow"
Garrison was missing from the lake for SOW
eral days, and IL Is suspected that he 10 either
out after winter supply of pork or that the
with him.