Some time in the year 1867, a fishing smack
sailed from Boston. One of the sailors was [NAME REDACTED]. Two of
the crew were missing, and were searched for. The captain went into
the hold. He held up his lantern, and saw the body of one of these
men, in the clutches of [NAME REDACTED] who was sucking blood from
it. Near by was the body of the other sailor. It was
bloodless.
[NAME REDACTED] was tried, convicted, and
sentenced to be hanged, but President Andrew Johnson commuted the
sentence to life imprisonment.
—CHARLES HOY FORT, Wild Talents