the sea coast echo (bay saint louis, miss.) 1892-current — wild man
- Date of account
- Newspaper page published 1912-11-09
- Location
- bay saint louis, mississippi, united states
- Source
- Chronicling America paranormal and anomalous-report excerpts
- Reference
- the sea coast echo (bay saint louis, miss.) 1892-current · 1912-11-09 · page 4
- Rights
- public_domain
- Language
- English OCR
- Record updated
- 2026-08-24
Record summary
A 1912-11-09 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.
Published source text
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Source passage
Source text · mention only... Andes. “O-rrr! Woof!” responded the wild man. Whereupon Policeman Andes called the wagon, and the wild man was taken to the station, put In a cell, and told to "sleep it off.” It is supposed that the wild man got tired of staying in a cage and eating raw meat and sleeping in hay. So he pushed the door of his dugout open, and walked 16 miles to Washington to get something that would take the taste of the meat out of his mouth. When the news spread through Rockville that it probably had a wild man on its hands, a posse of vigi lantes armed themselves with shot guns and pitchforks and raw meat, ...
Historical context
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Modern context
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