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the enterprise (harlem, mont.) 1899-1926 — wild man

Date of account: Newspaper page published 1912-06-20
Location: malta, montana, united states
Source: Chronicling America paranormal and anomalous-report excerpts
Reference: the enterprise (harlem, mont.) 1899-1926 · 1912-06-20 · page 4
Rights: public_domain
Language: English OCR
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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A 1912-06-20 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “wild man”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.

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... ground the Indians captured the Wild Man, snarling and biting. They did not slay the Wild Man, but bound him upon a horse and conveyed him over three hun dred miles of pampas to Gallegos, where they handed himn over to the authorities in due form. He was thrown into prison and the Indians de parted for their wilderness home once more. In the Argentine Republic there is no capital punishment, so that after his trial, the sentence that would be passed upon the Wild Man was cer tain-penal servitude for life. But it never came to a trial, for it was not long before the warders of the prison awoke one morn ing to ...

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