The wolf which escaped from Island Park last summer it is believe is dead. At least an animal answering the description of that one was dispatched Monday morning after it had tackled a man who proved too much for the beast.
James Scofield a farmer about 40 years of age, whose place is located about one mile north of Florida, Flat Rock township in Henry county, where his father lived before him, hence he is well known to the people of that vicinity, was in Defiance, Monday afternoon and gave the following account:
That morning about 6 o'clock when he went out to the barn to attend to his chores he saw the wolf devouring a chicken, which it had but a few moments previously killed.
When Mr. Scofield saw the beast, he started for the house to get his gun, but the wolf would not permit him to leave and made an attack on the man, biting him in the abdomen and on the arm and also on the hand, but none of the wounds were very severe. The wolf next attempted to reach his throat, but Mr. S., who is a good sized, strong man of about 175 pounds weight, was able to get a crack at the beast's head with his right fist. This knocked the brute away from him long enough to allow him to pick up a stick of wood lying conveniently near and with this missile he went after Mr. Wolf with sufficient force to soon lay the animal out cold in death.
He took the carcass of the beast to Florida (Ohio), where it was examined by several people and all in position to judge pronounced it a wolf, and it answers very closely the description of the one sent here from Missouri, by Ezra Blanchard, intended for the zoo at Island Park, but which escaped from its cage several weeks ago, since when it has not been heard of until on this occasion so far as known.
The presence of the wolf in the vicinity it was killed had not been suspected as no farmer there had reported the loss of poultry or live stock at any time.
James Scofield a farmer about 40 years of age, whose place is located about one mile north of Florida, Flat Rock township in Henry county, where his father lived before him, hence he is well known to the people of that vicinity, was in Defiance, Monday afternoon and gave the following account:
That morning about 6 o'clock when he went out to the barn to attend to his chores he saw the wolf devouring a chicken, which it had but a few moments previously killed.
When Mr. Scofield saw the beast, he started for the house to get his gun, but the wolf would not permit him to leave and made an attack on the man, biting him in the abdomen and on the arm and also on the hand, but none of the wounds were very severe. The wolf next attempted to reach his throat, but Mr. S., who is a good sized, strong man of about 175 pounds weight, was able to get a crack at the beast's head with his right fist. This knocked the brute away from him long enough to allow him to pick up a stick of wood lying conveniently near and with this missile he went after Mr. Wolf with sufficient force to soon lay the animal out cold in death.
He took the carcass of the beast to Florida (Ohio), where it was examined by several people and all in position to judge pronounced it a wolf, and it answers very closely the description of the one sent here from Missouri, by Ezra Blanchard, intended for the zoo at Island Park, but which escaped from its cage several weeks ago, since when it has not been heard of until on this occasion so far as known.
The presence of the wolf in the vicinity it was killed had not been suspected as no farmer there had reported the loss of poultry or live stock at any time.
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