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Show A WILD MAN HUNTED DOWN -WHO HE WAS. In the year ISoS a double murder waa committed in Ulster county, New York, by a man named Smith who killed hid wifo aud child hy! pounding them to death with a stone. He succeeded in escaping from the country, and olthouth a dozen diflerent persons were airest! on suspicion of (ving the guilty partv, no proof could be produced "against them. Tnitj Jeremiah Smith mis traced by detectives to Denver, where it w;its known he had stopped a few d;iy; :irterwanls to I'uh, and there all trace of hiui waa ioet. Souio tiuio in 1S71 there were rumors that .1 strange looking hunuin being had be"n from time to lime een in tbo wild sage-brush districts of Colo county, California. Ho w.is described as a tall person, clad iu li;o untauned skins of wild animals, hair and beard ol extraordinary length, and exhibiting nil tho characteristics char-acteristics of genuine wild man of the woods. Ho w.w always aruied with a rid and brace of pistols, but seemed to avoid, rather than seek, meetings with mankind. Occaaiou- ally he would visit cabins and ranches in the mountains, when bo knew there were no men around, securing such food and supplies as he stood in need of. On one occasion he appeared ap-peared at a raache where only two or three women were present, but the door was barred against him, the iu mates refusing to comply with his demand for foal. This enraged him, and lie emptied both revolvers through the doors and windows, seriously seri-ously wounding one of the women, alter which he retreated to a neighboring neigh-boring swamp. The nest day -ft party was organized to hunt him down and capture him. the result of which was that the wild man was taken and lodged in jail. He soon after escaped, but while thus confined some one . who saw him recognized in him a stronif resemblance resem-blance to the photographs of Smith, whioh had been circulated for use among the detectives. A search was again instituted for him, and at last he was discovered in an almost impenetrable im-penetrable thicket. He at once showed fight, firing repeatedly upon his pursuers. Finding it impossible to take him alive, a volley was poured in upon him, and he fell mortally wounded. He proved to be the miasing Jeremiah Smith, who in ISOS had murdered his wife and child in New York Btate. Denver I 1 AVtcj. |
