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the madison daily leader (madison, s.d.) 1890-current — wild man

Date of account: Newspaper page published 1905-10-24
Location: madison, south dakota, united states
Source: Chronicling America paranormal and anomalous-report excerpts
Reference: the madison daily leader (madison, s.d.) 1890-current · 1905-10-24 · page 3
Rights: public_domain
Language: English OCR
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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A 1905-10-24 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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... clean out the coach. The wild man soon run foul of the conductor, who broke a chair over his head. This did not take the fight oat of the wild man, wno made for the conductor and that official made himself scarce. The desperado next attacked a passen ger named Theodore Bernd. whom he nearly choked to death and whose hand be badly injured. A traveling man was the next to suffer, and be'ore he emerged from the grasp of the crazy man he had one of his knees severely injured. When the train reached Tyndall the wild man had the passengers piled in one end of the coach and the train crew had taken ...

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