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the colfax chronicle (colfax, grant parish, la.) 1877-1981 — wild man

Date of account: Newspaper page published 1912-10-26
Location: colfax, louisiana, united states
Source: Chronicling America paranormal and anomalous-report excerpts
Reference: the colfax chronicle (colfax, grant parish, la.) 1877-1981 · 1912-10-26 · page 02
Rights: public_domain
Language: English OCR
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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A 1912-10-26 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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... Andes. "G-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 "bleep 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 opea. 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 swild man on its hands, a posse of vlgi lantes armed themselves with shot guns and pitchforks and raw meat. with ...

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