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Show I WILD MAN' OF SWAMPS This is 1 li o first picture ever taken of Albert Parsons, the "wild man of the Mississippi swamps," who, with his wife and phild, fled from tin.' juggles t the Leaf nv.-r, ni-ar Louc, Miss., becauae of high Wate;. For years there have been reports bf a "wild man" in thoj , s ;iKij).s. IJHiaons'says lie causht his wife in a st ie M ap, maiiy yedra 'ago. She lost one eye in a l'ijjht with a wihl eat. When they a-peareil. a-peareil. the child was naked and Parsons and his wife Wore crude, torn garments they had used for years, This picture was taken at the Ellisville (Miss.) infinnarv after they had been given new ' clothes. |