WILD MAN OF THE HILLS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 45, 17 October 1912, Page 7

WILD MAN OF THE HILLS.

STRANGE DISCOVERY. New York, September 29. A wild man has been caught in the mountains near Ploughkeepsic, New York State, and has been identified as Arthur Brilton, aged 40 years, who disappeared ten years ago. The strange creature was discovered by some men who heard a noise something like the barking of a dog in the fastnesses of Pawling Mountain. They followed the sound, and found Brilton in a cave. His face and naked body was covered with a long shaggy growth of hair, he' had : lost all human speech, j and he snarled; and dashed about the cavt; like a wild beastJ ; The wild mail was taken to the Hufl*. so’ii Riter "Sia’tfe Hospital, * where ho jis| now undergoipg an . exhaustiyo medical examination! By.reason of bis lonp”ly life'in the mountains he has degenerated into the condition of primeval savagery. He refuses to use a knife I and fork,* and tears his food with his ; fingers, while his teeth are as sharp I as a dog’s. It is believed that Brilton, | was loSt ill the jand |then went mad.