Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1895 — Tribe of Wild Men Found. [ARTICLE]

Tribe of Wild Men Found.

Four curious specimens of humanity have been confined in Norridgewock jail, accused of sheep stealing, writes the Augusta, Me., correspondent of the New York Recorder. They were arrested in Brighton. They belong to a gang of about forty persons who have no homes, but who have lived until recently near the Canadian* line like wild beasts in the summer and in little or no clothing, and their backs, which have been long exposed to the sun and weather, are covered with a growth of hair fully three inches long. It is hard to make sense out of their conversation, although they have learned to swear so that they are understood. One of the men, a giant in form, is an idiot. His sides are full of small holes, made by a brad in the end of a stick, when he has been yoked to an ox. The day they were placed in jail they had a fight among themselves and tore all the clothing off each other’s bodies. Police are after others of this tribe of wild men.