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Show AGED WILD MAN OF SWAMP CATCHES HIS WIFE IN TRAP LAUREL. Miss, Jan. 22. E riven from his cabin in the , swamps along Leaf river by high water, Albert Parsons, an aged white man and a woman, who says she is his wife, were brought to Laurel and nlaced in i the county poor house The find ing of Parsons is believed to set at rest the reports of a wild man, current for years, said to be living in this section. Parsons says that be and his wife lived on wild roots, berries I and what animals they were U able to trap. With them, when found, was a child, which in spite of the cold, was entirely , without clothing Parsons told the shenff that he caught Lis wife in a steel trap many years ago - |