Under the hard ground of the cemetery at North Creek, N. Y., last week was buried a swart, nameless giant who died in a blaze of gunfire among the snowbound mountains of Essex County earlier this month.. Police and U. S. Army records had failed to identify him. But inhabitants of the vicinity had not ceased to wonder and talk about the prodigious "wild man of the Adirondacks" and the terror he spread in the three days it took to catch him.
First men to see the "wild man" were Ernest Blanchard and Leslie Turner, two trappers, when he burst from the...
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