The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-13
WILD MAN" MADE
RAID ON SANDFLY.
ARMED WITH A SHOTGUN
HE APPEARED AND GAVE CHASE
TO FLEEING RESIDENT.

Scramble for Safety Resulted-Groc-
err Love Went to Magistrate in
That District and Asked Him to
Act-Justice Said He Was Not in
Circus Business and Could Not Use
the 'WiId Man"-Deputy Sherifs
Then Hurried to the Scene, But
Effect No Capture.
The peaceful residents of Sandhy
were rudely disturbed yesterday morn
ing by the appearance of ''a wild
man" and there were hurried calls
for help. Though Deputy Sheriffs
Fennell and Thompson were at once
dispatched to the scene, the man could
not be located.
The appearance of this latest wild
man" was spectacular, to say the
least. He emerged from the brush
that grows about quiet little Sandfiy,
armed with a shotgun, and with blood
in his eyes.
met and interrupted him with
the exclamation that he wanted
blood and was going to have it. He
also announced that his express pur-
pose in being in that vicinity was to
aid somebody in shutting off this NOR
tai coil. He accentuated his words
by getting his gun in position to fire.
Chased With a Gun.
This was too much for the disturbed
nerves of the man before the wild
man." and he at once did a hot foot
for safety. The wild man, who ds a
negro, gave chase. Every cabin that
they passed found wondering faces
peering at the chase and the next in
slant the occupants were making hur-
ried fights over back fences.
Meanwhile Grocer Love of Sandf1y
invoked the aid of the law and APP
piled to the justice of that district for
warrant. But the justice announced
that he was not in the circus bust
ness, and had no possible use for a
wild man." He refused, it is alleged,
to have anything to do with the mat
ter, and suggested that some of the
professional circus men be communi-
Gated with.
Startled the Sheriff.
Shortly after II o'clock the tele-
phone in Sheriff Schwarz Office rang
with unusual vigor and the sheriff
| hurried to answer it. Before he could
ask who was at the other end of the
line voice called out, This is Mr..
Love of Sandf1y, sheriff. Please hurry
a deputy out here. There is wild man
loose and we want protection"
Maj Schwarz decided that under the
conditions perhaps it would be best
to send two deputies, in order to allow
for all the vagaries of the wild man."
Away went Deputies Fennell and
Thompson, picturing all manner of
| men with wild eyes, long nails, and
flowing. matted hair, growing as he
ran through the underbrush.
At Sandhy the search began. The
deputies beat the bush in true hunts
man style, but aroused nothing but a
| few snakes and mosquitoes. They
| searched the negro cabins, but there
was no trace of the wild man." When
| the search had continued for half an
hour without result. the deputies gave
up the job and returned to Savannah.
Who the wild Man Is.
The man who first attracted the at
| tention of the wild man" was located
| by the deputies and from him they
| learned just who the negro was. He
goes under the name of Maxwell. Only
a short time ago he was acquitted of
a serious charge accusing him of a
crime near Crescent City.
The man whom he attacked has been
living next to the negro for some time,
and he states that there has been
! absolutely nothing to anger him. The
| two have never even quarreled, and
nothing has occurred at any time be-
tween them to excite the wild man..
| 1t was simply the case of going for
the first human object that appeared
| in view.
! The idea held by the officers is that
Maxwell has been attempting to get
outside of too much red-eye, with the
| inevitable result that he has the JIM
| jams. The customary snakes have been
misplaced with an uncanny desire to
drink blood and hence the descent on
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