Show STRANGE MONSTER SCARES CITIZENS WEIRD BABOONLIKE CREATURE SEEN NEAR DARBY PA MAY BE PRACTICAL JOKE Belated Wayfarer of Delaware County Frightened by Mysterious Thing and Many Residents Are Arming Themselves Darby PaAII Delaware county is stirred up over the supposed antics of an alleged wild animal which Is assorted as-sorted to look like a gorilla and to havo frightened belated wayfarers almost al-most out of their wits in various parts of tho county While It Is believed by most persons that the wholo thing Is a practical joke on the part of someone some-one who Is literally making a monkey mon-key out of himself still many of tho moro timid class aro thoroughly alarmed and fully believe all tho tale that are told about tho mysterious creaturo Thoso professing to have seen tho wonderful animal assert that It sometimes I some-times goes upright like a man and i then dashes along on all fours with marvellous speed maintaining a queer galloping gait They furthermore fool certain that It has a coat of dark I hair but that Is not considered remarkable I re-markable as tho weather Is cool Their stories of how they almost encountered en-countered the strange beast have been so thrilling that many of tho negroes In the county cannot bo Induced to pass tho spots where it is said to have been seen Others have purchased pistols and go about armed fully resolved re-solved to sell their lives dearly should thoy encounter the mythical monster in any of its hypothetical haunts Others take tho thing seriously without with-out being unduly alarmed and they try to explain the matter That it is an apo escaped from somo zoological collection col-lection is the most commonly accepted theory This was strengthened by a rumor that tho authorities of the Zoological Gardens of Philadelphia were out looking for a lost Simian in Delaware county But a telephone message to tho zoo exploded tho story All tho Philadelphia monkeys are safe in their cages Their keeper respectfully respect-fully suggested that tho animal down by Darby Is probably a monkey of native na-tive Delaware county stock Nevertheless several persons In Springfield township are so convinced that thero is a strange animal prowlIng prowl-Ing about that they have set traps for It Frank Carr Is ono of thorn and ho set a number of traps In an enclosure en-closure in tho rear of his houso near somo woods where the reputed crew ter e JIh 1 r a i i + n From the Trees He Terrifies Passers Pass-ers by turo was reported to havo been seen It Is now stated that the traps Tore found broken the bait devoured and all evidences on hand of a struggle made by somo animal Tho practical Joker who is working tho scare if such is tho case has succeeded to an extent which may work his own harm For there are a number of Delaware county citizens who while not getting In hysterics about the matter have quietly placed big guns in their hip pockets and are waiting for a chance to pot anything I that looks like a baboon i |