Pine BarrensField Notes

Wild-men reports · Salem County

The Jericho sightings

Contemporary source summarized

A short newspaper item reported repeated attempts to catch an unidentified man living without clothing in woods near Jericho.

The report

The surviving brief said an unidentified man was roaming woods near Jericho. It described him as large, dark-whiskered, and without clothing. Several people had reportedly tried to capture him, but the writer attributed his escape to his speed. The clipping supplies no name, motive, duration, official response, or outcome.

Source

  1. Unidentified newspaper brief, 1875 assigned by the source collection; the issue date is not visible; headline, issue date, and page are not visible in the saved crop.

This page paraphrases every legible claim in the brief while avoiding its original wording.