Year: 1878

81 euoiouSSiiy SCdieu tlaI every slight
noise caused him to cover and tremble.


We all adjourned to the stable to look
at the horse, and then started in the di-
rection the "destroyer of our peace had
taken. We each wore snow-shoes, and
carried gun. though we were strictly
forbidden to use them unless it became
absolutely necessary for our own safety.
A supply Of rope was also taken, to be
used IN case of his capture.


We had proceeded up the road for
half a mile or more, when we came to an
indentation in the soft ssow by the side
of the .oad, where the maniac had eyi
IDENTITY been thrown from the horse.


A rail fence near had been dragged
down and evidently hurled at the retreat
ing figure of the animal.


From this place we could easily follow
the trail of the man, who had sunk deep
IN the snow at every step, aud entered the
woods but a short distance from the
road


Hither we eagerly followed, and very
shortly were painfully made aware of the
presence OF the object of our search, who
had secreted himself behind large pine
stump When the first man passed him,
he spraug upon him and bore him into
the snow. We all together dragged him
off, but tried in vain to hold him down.
He threw us all off, and, knocking two
or three men down. disappeared into the
thick forest


The man whom he had so savae civ at
tackled was not seriously hurt, but we all
agreed that it would be useless to follow
the Wild man, as we could not effect hi.
capture without some of us being severe
ly injured.


we accordingly returred home and
earned out the programme of the day.
and by three o'clock had arrived at the
lumber camp.


Here everything went well for awhile,
and we were just getting we'll under way
with our logging, when the wild man
again made his presence known in an
unexpected, and, as it proved, fatal way
We had though it barely possible that he
might visit our camp, but as two or three
weeks had passed, and we were eight or
nine miles from where he had last been
seen, we had entirely given up the idea.


Our method of logging was to cut
road from our timber to the nearest
creek, and haul the logs on to the ice,
there to wait for the spring freshet. The
snow on the sides Of these roads often
became six OF eight feet high, and it was
then impossible to turn out on either side,
hence we had switches - at regular in
tervals, where each empty team waited
till the loaded sled passed


1t was about four o'clock, and already
becoming dusk, on Thursday of our third
week, that 1 was taking nv last load
down to the ice. A short distance behind
came Jim Hayden with another load. I
was but few rods from the ''switch y
when heard a terrible scream of bolster
Gus laughter.


The thought that it was the madman
instantly forced it self upon me, and upon
looking around, saw the six yoke of
oxen tearing madly down the road to-
wards me. ct was down eradc.) They
were heavily loaded, and atop the logs
stood the madman, plying the whip ana
uttering such fearful yells as fairly made
my blood run cold.


l Immediately perceived that if I did
not get my load into the switch before he
passed, terrible catastrophe would be
the result, and / therefore hurried the
oxen as much as possible; but despite nv
efforts, | had only succeeded in getting
partly in when the twelve oxen struck the
end Of the logs with heavy crash, kill
ing the off oxen of the two middle teams
instantly, and throwing my oxen down


The madman was thrown from the sled
and struck my load on his back, where


he lay grooming heavily. The oxen
!, kept On in their mad career, carving


their dead comrades with them, and ran


on to the ice where the impetous of the


heavy load forced them over some Of the
logs, when the nigh for'a'd' OK broke {
leg. The remaining cattle tore away


from the sled, and dragged thier deae


and wounded companions into the woods


where we afterwards found them.


When my oxen were thrown, slippel


the bolt from the "evener," so that in cas-,
/ they should stampede the sled would b,


safe. They ran a few yards and stopped
). just as our whole party came up, out o
. quirjng for the madman. pointed t


the top of the load, one of the men climb
ed up and found him dead His bacl


had been broken.


| inquired tor jim, and was Informed
l. that the madman had crcpt upon him a


he was walking by the side of his team


and had killed him with heavy beetle


and thrown his body against tree.


The parents of young Hayden wer


wild with grief, and blamed us all severe


ly. He was their Oldest son and chic
l. support.


% We advertised the death of the mania
4 in the nearest city papers, and a week Q
! ten days afterward heard from his rels
y tives.


He hai been a wealthy physician i
: the State Of New York, with a large prae
! tice, but had lost his reason through Civ
=. ing patient poison by mistake.
- On hearing of Jim's death, the brothe
:, ofthe maniac made the Haydens pres
~ a. eEt Of five thousand dollars He ais
y paid for all the damage his brother ha


done elsewhere.


After everything had been settled W
: went back to our logging, and althoug
= we were very Succpecf,1 that winter urs