Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1883 — Boy With an Alligator Hide. [ARTICLE]

Boy With an Alligator Hide.

Topeka Journal. Dr. Hamilton has discovered the greatest living curiosity of the age. Those who have examined testify that it beats anything they ever saw. The curiosity is in shape a natural human being, a colored boy, eighteen years of age, who was bom near Grenada, on the Mississippi River, in the State of Mississippi. From his shoulders down his skin is just like that of an alligator, is thickly ooversd with black scales, and the whole is as pliable, though thick and tough, as the hide on one of these animals. In the summer time these scales drop off, leaving an indenture in the skin, wheie new ones form and grow on again. His name is Moses Eskridge, and he oame here during the exodus times with his father and step-mother. Secretary Folger will go te Bermuda as soon as his health permits.