The sun., 1896-09-20
WHO WERE THE wILDMENY
THEY PLATED QUEER PRhNKs
WITH NON POYN7oN.

Ne Was Fouad Afterxsrd Nearly str,,p@,
OF His Clothes and Badly Frirht
ensd-He Hs Very Indignant and So Ar,
OoWpsrthwait snd Clifford Rueknam
ELNsToRD. y. Y. Sept 1e.-For a week OF
lnore there have been rumors among the real
tents OF 1rvington-on- the Hudson that ther,
was a Wild man in the woods along Hartman,
Lans. near the residence OF Samuel Goodman
freight agent OF the Now York Cantral and
Hudson River Railroad.
Children aud women said that q man In tat
tered clothes. with hairy face and hands. had
tprung oct OF the woods after them and chased
them for short distance. uttering cries. some
bf wbioh were inarticulRte Rrowls and others
very distinot demands for money Ex-post-
master and Justice OF the Peace John Harvey
tnd Constable Henry Raisch undertook TO hunt
lhe creature down, but, after searching for two
lays. they gave up the chase. John Brisben
Walker. Jr. and Edward IS. Jaffray McVickar
Also armed themselves and spent an afternoon
and night looking for the wild man.
On Friday night Mr.. Mcvickar and Mr..
Walker were walking through Harriman's
lane, accompanied by Robert Poynton, a
Soung man who was at ono time en-
pIoyed about the Jaffray stables. but who
II now man of all work about Irvinston
When Mr.. Mcvickar was a small boy, living at
tho house Of his grandfather. E. s. JatTray, it
was Poynton's duty to follow him about the
place and keep him out of mischief
Poynton has never altogether recovered from
tho habit Of keeping watch OF Mr.. Teddy"
Mr.. McVickar, moreover. has made It custom
TO send for Bob whom any important excursion
has been planned. ,-f
Clifford Buchanan and q young anan named
Cowperthwait of Yonkers wsAt to meet Mr.
Walker. Mr.. Mcvickars and Poynton on
Friday night for a,tSts'Sover back" as the coun-
try betweenthe river and the Sound is known to
= the jewellers along the Hudson. They did not
come, and somebody suggested that they might
have been attacked by the wild man. Mr..
Walker was sure Of It. md Mr.. Mcyickar was
Enthusiastically enthusiastic over the idea
As Mr.. McVickar told the story last night.
in snss e, Mr E Ia front TSes 1Ses
were approaching particularly gloomy part Of
the ESSd Ss whsn M halted
front. IT'S too dark for me, all right, all right"
has wss wsst tefnS highly Mr sSGr"q +,
q sSy6ody Yoa % %o get T in IGe front Saai and
Mr.. Mcvickar consented with a cheerful
alacrty that would have been suspicious to |
ten steps had been taken in the new order
when two men l.aped out OF the woods, one
face and white OF hands, and in his costume
much r:sembled negro minstrel end man.
wafer s% IN The
grows of these two beings were horrible indeed.
They pouneed upon Poynton and threw him TO
What more they dd Mr.. HDviie HMaDviehar saaSp said he
does not know, as hs fied from the place as fast
rs his feet could carry him. closely followed by |
Mr.. Walker. AS he ran. he said. he heard Poyn-
ION fr issTor'ToEs1 HsS MI ag9n{ For ,,o
the time saved your life, ,pnllnG ye out of tho
R.n and not ss years DID, save me
Then tho cries were throttled.
). =, wns sorry for Bob Mr.. Mcytckar.
myself. those creatures were such a sight. /
ran as far as could and then lay down on my
in such agony in M life on In the woods nesr
,ne beard John rolling around on the ground
and yelling, SO knew that he was in misery.
After half m hour, Mr.. Mcvickar said, he
vent vent back to the scene of the attack. He found
Ing the soil with outstretched hands. He was
attired only in one shoe and one sock and a four
%oh, Lord" he moaned when Mr.. Mcvickar
poked him. what have l ever dope to suffer
Haven't ye tormented mo enough? When MIR.
Teddy gets back here with the police. ye'll re.
rise and ciothe Himself with his garments.
bushes. No money had been taken from him.
and two new dollar bills. for which he could
not account were found in the pocket of his
" While MT; Meyieksr SUPPORTED the trembling
Jr., ran ahead 10 his cottage r near by A'a and
brought out q shotgun, with which he fired sew
sral shots at the disappearing forms of Poyn-
TOMS assailants. whom both Mr.. McVickar and
Mr.. Walker said they skulking In the
buHhes. Apparently either Mr.. Walkers aim or
his eyesight is bad. He did not bring down the
Wild men. .-. -,
When the party returned to Mr.. Walkers
cottage they found MIR. Bucknsm and Mr..
Cowperthwait waiting for them. They both
showed traces of recent contact with burnt
cork, and were moro exhausted than persons
usually are by the trip to the house from the
IrvlnRton station.
Thoy expressed great surprise at the story OF
he attack. and wanted to start another hunt at
once; Poynton; however, absolutely and indig-
lnantly declined. He consented to accompany {
he party to this place, however. When he ar
rived here he was still too much excited to tell
, coherent story. He declared that the con-
stabulary Of the town OF Greenburgh will have
no rest from him until the wild men of Irving
ton are hunted down.
Mr.. McVickar and Mr.. Walker argued with
him. Mr.; Bucknam and Mr. Cowperthwalt
'atd that they were too much enraRed over the
affair to trust themselves to talk.
IN MEMORY OF WASRINGTON {