Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1888 — A Fascinating Horror. [ARTICLE]

A Fascinating Horror.

London Troth. There is at the present moment an unfortunate monstrosity hidden away in a back room of the London Hospital in the Whitechapel road. They call it the elephant man. and on one occasion certain members of the medical profession thought fit to advertise this distressing case in the columns of a leadingdaily newspaper. No one would believe what, private excitement that monstrosity has caused. Women beg and plead to be allowed to go and gaze at it. Actresses of the first rank, under the sham pretense of humanity, go and take tea with the elephant man. They are fascinated by this distressful ereature, and they take their female friends, to this uncanny seance.