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greene county herald (leakesville, miss.) 1898-current — wild man

Date of account: Newspaper page published 1912-06-21
Location: leakesville, mississippi, united states
Source: Chronicling America paranormal and anomalous-report excerpts
Reference: greene county herald (leakesville, miss.) 1898-current · 1912-06-21 · page 8
Rights: public_domain
Language: English OCR
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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A 1912-06-21 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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... bent over the fire the Wild Man, with senseless and brutal cruelty, shot him through the back and, helping himself to various provisions, left the house and the dead man lying in it The news of this crime and of others, which followed close upon it, aroused the whole dis trict Neither man nor woman could feel safe while the Wild Man lived, and at last a body of armed settlers ran the criminal to earth in a house which he had entered for purposes of plunder. He never left that houae alive, but foil on the freehold riddled with bulleta, y%t cot be fore he had left his mark upon more than one of ...

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