Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1893 — MR. COX IN A BOX. [ARTICLE]

MR. COX IN A BOX.

A strange freak has recently come to light in White county, near Cleveland,Ga There is a young man by the name of Baius Cox, who several years ago renounced the world and his family, and has ever since made his home in a dry goods box. He eats and sleeps there, except occasionally when he roams about at night His mother carries food and water to him as though she had a pig in a pen. She has always insisted that he is not crazy. A cyclone passed over that place one day last week, which drove him out, when for the first time tu three years he beheld the face of fils brother. Great damage has been done by extear sive floods In eastern Galicia and eighteen persons wen drowned. d*