Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1889 — A Mystery Solved. [ARTICLE]

A Mystery Solved.

For several years boatmen and others along the Susquehanna river, between the villages of Susquehanna and Red Rock, have been interested, not to say disturbed, by a creature in the water at the latter puint. The strange animal has always made its appearance at night, and an unearthly, weird noise accompanied by heavy splashing often p wakened the people from their slumbers. Early after sundown a dark object has frequently been seen moving slowly across the river, and boat after boat has been upset by it It was killed recently and proved to be a big alligator. It is supposed to have escaped from its owners years ago. The creature weighed over 500 pounds, and it took half the population of the neighborhood to kill it.