Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1894 — A Human Fox-Trap. [ARTICLE]

A Human Fox-Trap.

J. R. Van Etten, an Ellenville, N. Y-, lawyer, says that while he was fox hunting recently near that place he had a remarkable experience. He sent-his dogs on the trail of the fox and then stood alongside of a stone wall, ready to blaze away when the animal came near him. / After waiting some time he began thinking about the European war cloud and the fox passed out of his mind. Suddenly, however, he felt something brush against the inside of one of his legs and he mechanically closed them. Upon looking down he found he had caught as in a vise a fine, lively fox. “It seems that I had been standing by a hole in the wall,” said the lawyer, “and the fox had cautiously followed along the wall without seeing me, and, finding the opening, had popped through and was caught as I have stated. It did not take kindly to its capture, for it bit me in the leg, but I finally overcame it and took it along home with me. It is the first time I ever knew a human body to be turned into a foxtrap.’’—(Detroit Free Press. The property of Germany is assess ed at 180,600,000,000.