Anyway, this is another story where the entity in question is not really a Bigfoot-type wild man but is obviously a human. However, similar to my recent story about the wild man seen around Berkeley Castle (see article HERE), this particular wild man has attributes that seem almost supernatural in nature. He is able to move with superhuman stealth and swiftness, and according to the article, glides almost snake-like, avoiding blows that should have easily hit their mark. 

This wild man was also pretty darn bold. Most of the wild man stories I post tend to feature those who are very shy in nature, trying to avoid contact with the civilized world as much as possible. This wild man, however, not only walked right into a guy's house as he was playing euchre with friends and hopped in his bed, but then SHOT HIM, hitting him in his hair, the next day. 

I've transcribed the article below with paragraph breaks to make it a little easier to read, and also included the original. In addition to the name of the town being a little off, there are some other minor errors, which I tried to leave in for the sake of posterity. 

Newfield has come to the front with a hairy wild man, so awful mysterious, and formidable that he opens up a new field for thought and investigation. He has been seen by some of the most unimpeachable residents of, and visitors to, South Section. He is described as over six feet tall, clad in rough and scanty attire, and wearing a grizzly beard that reaches almost to his knees. 

Although he has chased several fishermen who have invaded his secluded domain in quest of brook trout, and shot a peaceable farmer near Newfield station, no active steps have been made toward his capture, and yet he roams at large. His latest and most daring exploit occurred about a week ago, when he left the gloom of the forest and actually entered an unoccupied dwelling in the broad light of day.

Large and heavy as the wild man is, he glides so swiftly and silently that he frequently is at hand before his coming has been observed. In this silent, ghost-like manner he is said to have floated into the house of a farmer named Payne. The farmer and three companions were engaged in an interesting game of euchre and were not aware of the wild untilan's company. Payne felt something bushy touching the back part of his head, when, looking up, he found it to be the great beard of the strange hermit. Payne jumped to his feet, and would have struck the silent visitor with a chair, but he avoided the blow, and with mysterious steps made his way to an adjoining room and stretched himself upon a bed.

Payne followed him and again raised the chair to strike him, but again he seemed to glide from beneath it, and this time he made his exit through the window by a gliding, snake-like motion, but as silently as a wreath of smoke ascends to the blue ether. The farmer watched him and saw him leave his premises and enter a patch of woods near by, and supposed he had disappeared for good, but during the evening of that same day he returned and was seen standing under a tree near the house as though deliberating whether to enter the house. After standing there a short time, he turned around suddenly and ran rapidly back to the woods. 

Next day one of the farmer's cows strayed away and he started off to look for it. Shortly after he left the house his family heard the sharp report of a rifle, and in a few minutes back came Payne, pale and breathless, and well-nigh done for. As soon as he could set the machinery of speech in motion he described in graphic language the cause of his excitement. It was an encounter with the wild man. He said he was walking through a small clearing, calling "ko boss, ko boss," when without warning he heard a rifle discharged close by and felt the wind of a bullet as it whistled over his forehead through the rim of his felt hat and through his erect hair. He fell flat upon the ground, partially stunned, and it was well he did, for the wild man, thinking his first shot had proved fatal, shouldered his piece and strode off into the underbrush. This strange episode is at present the theme uppermost all through South Section, and it is said that a posse of hunters are preparing to track the wild man, and if possible effect his capture alive or dead.