WILD MAN HUNT IN VIRGINIA.
S EVIDENTLY A LUNATIC. A report from Tazewell, U.S.A., saya a) wild man is at large in that country, and is terrorising the whole section. He has been operating in the vicinity of Falls Mills for tlutee weeks, terrifying the women and children. He remains in the woods mostly through the day and emerges about nightfall and again early in the morning. His only demands so far have been for food. The inhabitants are afraid to refuse him any request., as he canrics a Winchester rifle, a belt full of pistols and ammunition and several big knives. He has Anslted more than twenty houses in the past two weeks, and his -demands have all been complied with. No one is able to identify him, and! he is described as being a monstrously large man, with light hair, very fair, and with most penetrating, wild, glaring blue eyes. About forty men have bamded together, and ane beating the mountains in search of him. If he- is caught, a desperate struggle is likely to take place.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7802, 5 September 1903, Page 4
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