This Day in History: December 22nd, 1903

This Day in History: December 22nd, 1903

MILLTOWN WILD MAN AT LARGE ONCE MORE

Reports come from Milltown that an insane man has been seen on the farm of M. Thompson, on George’s Road, near Parsons’ Lane. He has also been seen by Mrs. George Otis, a little further up the road. The man is said to act very queerly and has frightened the women folks of the neighborhood considerably.

The man’s haunts are near those of the famous Milltown wild man who made periodic appearances about two years ago and had the countryside after him with guns. That wild man was finally run down by Constable James Townsend, who discovered that the man was a foreigner employed on the construction work of the new Trenton trolley line. He wasn’t really wild. People just thought so. This new wild man, however, is said to be the real, genuine thing.