WILD MEN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 164, 13 July 1871, Page 4

WILD MEN.

v ONE CAUGHT IN MICHIGAN, AND A HUNT FOR ANOTHER IN TENNESSEE. • Early last winter parties living severalmiles from Windsor discovered inthe woods, huddled up against a log in a vain effort to keep,' warm, a curious kind of beast or man* one can scarcely tell which. The "it" is fearfully deformed, his hands covered with long coarse hair, face grown full of rank whiskers, eyes looking like those of a wolf; and bis captors treat him more like a dog than a poor unfortunate lunatic. After being in Windsor for a few days, the " man wolf," as he was named, was brought over here, and it is at present on Michigan avenue. It is the general opinion that the strange being is the man who escaped from the lunatic asylum at Maiden last fall, but this is an error. The fugitive was a strong, tall man, standing -very , stiff and erect, whereas this specimen is "badly deformed and would not have been capable of making. the resistance and the rapid flight made by the lunatic in question. But how the being came in the vicinity of Windsor no one is able to ;telf, or at least has not yet informed the public. A man named Seth Narmore, from Sarhia, was at the Central Station yesterday, and after paying a visit to the keeping-place of the strange creature, returned and reported that he knew his history. Some'three years since a man named Roscommon, living about twelve miles from Sarnia, received in charge from his brother at Montreal a lunatic, supposed by outsiders to be some relative of the family,although Roscommon was not communicative .of facts. .The lunatic was at first confined in a chamber of the house, but h<_ attracted so much attention from the passers-by, and so disturbed the inmates of- the house, that a small house: was soon built for hiß especial keeping. Very few people ever saw. the unfortunate, but hundreds of farmers parsing by used to hear him scream and beat the wall of his prison, At length onPr.night he made his escape, ; and Rosscommon was' 1 compelled to ask the a9Bistance~bf his neighbors to secure him. They found hitn in a swamp eating bark and roots ; butane, exhibited tbe utmost ferocity when an attempt was made to catch him, finally leaving the swamp when a couple of dogs were sent in after him, and one of the scans on his face was received while the^ wfen were binding him. Mr. ' -NarEttora, was one of the i, pursuers,'!, and he^is quite positive that this ." man-wolf " is ' the identical lunatic, as that one did finally 1 make good his escape and no oue was able to hunt hinT down. " -It is asserted, and.it has been reported,,' tc» the, Superintendent of Police, that t#e of .this, stranger do not treat him as they should. He is kept chained a good share of the time; and'; the' rough 4>oys of the neighbo^hopd are. allowed. to tease; and vex him." Ir there is aigppd; reason for believing that he has escaped! from! any i lunatic asylum there ought to be an investigation made by the 1 pblibe' or some' proper official. Without doubt he is brazy; as well as fierce and ravenous, and its would be only humane .and decent for him., to be taken from h|s present'^wners/ and sent to the County House or the* Insane k-sylum^ | >;* \ i. The Jackson (Term.) Whig, of the 15th April, sayy^fWe^lefirn'that between 1 Sobby and : Grainevllle, oh awhat is called Piney, in McNairy County, a strange and fri'gHifuU 'biffig'l'has' tvßeenSOob^er-ved - fdr several weeks. He is said to be seven

_ feet high, and .possessed of great muscular power, 'His eyes areJbnusualJ^lftrge,AO(^ .fiery red ; his hair hangs in a tangled and matted mass^ *of;.jet below his waist, and his beard reaches below his middle. His "entire body is covered with ,.hair, „and __h.is whole aspect is most frightful.^. Hejshpns the* sight of imenil fiu fa apjps>ach|s with wild 'and horrid screams bf'dllight every woman who is unaccompanied by a man. He, sometimes, with great caution, approaches houses'; and should he sfe a man., lie! '_ liunH . away with astounding swiftness, leaping, ,., the, . tallest} fences with the ease of a deer, defying alike^ the pursuit of men and dogs. He has fright- j ened several women hy attempting to carry them off, as we'll as <by his horrid aspect, and the whole country around Sobby is in consternation. The : citizens are ' now scouring the woods, and are determined to ' capture or drive ofl <the. monster.— Detriot Free Press.