Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1912 — AT MERCY OF BIG MADMAN [ARTICLE]

AT MERCY OF BIG MADMAN

Pennsylvania Giant Uses Hla Wooden Leg and Teeth as Weapons Against Officer*. Berwick, Pa. —Big Joe, an Allen, considered the most powerful man In West Berwick, became violently insane, and, rushing from his home, spread terror in his path, taking to some open common and defying capture. it required the efforts of a number of men to capture him, and onceln the lock-up he battered the door with Us head so violently that it wan feared he would fracture his skull. He was hurried to the Danville hospital and almost overpowered the four officers who had him In charge, biting two of them and with his wooden leg almost knocked Chauffeur Creasy out of the machine. ~ West Berwick has had a mad dog epidemic and It is feared he was bitten by a mad dog.