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*• WILD MAN HARMLESSU8]UaO:tlt;ftiNLike a Wrath of tb« Woods, But II«*1* Finally Run Down.Galeton, Dec. 28— John and Jacob Simpson. ^bXQtlierfl residing near Ol coo a, wore fox hunting in^ho Kettle Creek region the day fotteylng the laet big snowfall, when they ran across a myaterlDU9'looktng Track which .they followed and found tht ft had been made by an- aged man who would ohly give hla name as Lohr. evidently demented, who declares that WBa* lived a hermit In the KetUo Crqek region, for 'Over two years. •The discovery of this- queer-looking fellow probably ©*plalc* j the mystery of the *114' jdsqV that liaa been exciting that section at periods for a long lime. He was twice a ten during the berry season laet fall, sftrd once a party of ginseng hunters saw a queer-looking object run thrqughvthe woods and disappear back of a., ledge'of rocks. They atfirst thought It waa a beaVr but UP* .on closer mapectyonFdlttternafl tirarf^ilwH^a^P-VFHgHteiidd. thgy-feft L woods ....... - ■The other day pne of Jhe Simp-, eon brothers came, upon the queer tracks^ But the footprints had' nothin's about them that looked like shoe., tracks. Instead' they’ were nearer Tonnrt and Romewhat rrregu-W$CFdISccJax.—Between- eacb-tMcir but a foot Tor m^re outside Their tine In the deep and unbroken 'enow T^at the print of whaf was unmistakably the piercing mark of a ‘ cane. The brothers followed the trail, and had gone hut a rod or*so until they came to where there was a big blotch in the snow, showing that tbe man—* for so_ tWa proved to. them—had slipped and fallen. The men lowed' the track for over a mile. They finally came i.p with their quarry, on old man with unkempt hair and wild eyes, and evidently displeased at their intrusion, for he bad taken refuge under a high ledge of rocks: where a great pile ,lt;if leaves and tree bought! were made Info a bed. The queer tracks In **i *n T~ h*H hp*n made by bundlesof rites that the old man wore aboufoot _____ .The men tried to get him to go with them, promising to go out ;of (he woods toward their homes at once if he would accompany them. But at t.bia suggestion he made aTDoiipn ns though he Intended to' run away, and finally the Simpsons left brm In his cave-like home.A/.
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Wellsboro Gazette
Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Dec 29, 1910
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