File:Wild Man (of the Woods, Louisiana) - 1860-05-11 - Bedford Gazette (Bedford, PA), p. 2.jpg

Summary
The Bedford gazette. (Bedford, Pa.), 11 May 1860. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. 

Text
A Louisiana Wild Man of the Woods. &mdash; A wild man of the woods, who speaks French in a manner not at all wild, is furnishing a local topic in the New Orleans papers. He was caught in a clump of bushes on a plantation, thirteen miles below the city, armed with a re- volver, which unpleasant instrument he pop- ped at every passenger along the road. Having frightened an entire parish out of its wits, a strong force was mustered to capture him, and that job was safely accomplished. Nobody knows him, nor will he give an account of him- self.