Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-08-01
A WILD MAN.
Strange Experience Of Councilman Stnchileld
OF Auburn in the Woods.

| Lewiston. July 9Th" strange man
\ no has been roaming about IN the
\ woods III Minot has bobbcd up again.
This time h. has appeared to a South
Auburn farmer, clad in tattercd clothes.
uith long butcher knife in his waist
band. belt Ut rope, with long gray
Whiskcrs and matted hair. The South
! Auburn farmer stood face to face with
the strange man Of the forest for lo
minutes. They looked each other il
| tie eve al this time and while neither
advanced a step the farmer did try t.
strike up conversation with the
stranger. He asked him where he was
going II he was lost If he didn't call
| it a hot day. if he didn't want some
| thing To eat, What time of day il was
how long he had been in the woods,
where he came from and where h. was
soing-in fact all the simple questions
NJ could think Of.
! But the stranger answered him not
word. He simply stood in his tracks
and stared at him, When at length
| The farmer stopped talking the man
turned about and ran off into the woods
! This appearance Of the wild man was
On Monday, July =, at 10 A. ~. and
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notes
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