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Friday, January 22, 2021

Wild Couple Captured in Laurel Swamp, Jan. 22, 1921

By the Associated Press, Laurel, Miss., Jan. 22—Driven from his cabin in the swamp along Leaf river by high water, Albert Persons, an aged white man, and a woman who said she is his wife, were brought to Laurel today and placed in the county poor house. The finding of the pair is believed to have set to rest reports of a wild man at large in the vicinity.

Parson said he and his wife lived on wild gooseberres and what animals they were able to trap. With them was a child who, in spite of the cold, was entirely without clothing. Parsons said he caught his wife in a steel trap many years ago.

(From the front page of The Hickory Daily Record, Jan. 22, 1921)

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