AN AERIAL MONSTER
What Judge Dillar's Little Boy Claims to Have Seen.
The Sunday Examiner contained an account of a winged monstrosity that had been shot and killed by some men in Arizona. It was described as a species of animal hitherto totally unknown in the world, with enormous bat-like wings, the beak of a crocodile, an elongated body and a tail twisted like a coil of electric wires. The story read like an Examiner fake, but a semi-corroboration is furnished by a local incident.
Several days ago the young son of Judge Dillar ran pale and frightened to the house, exclaiming, "Papa, I have just seen the devil!" He declared that while out on the hills in the City Park he saw an enormous creature flying through the air with bat-like wings, a long bill and a tail twisted like a doughnut. His father laughed at such a notion, but the little fellow stoutly held to his story. He said it flew toward the east. Yesterday he was questioned again about it and repeated just what he had said previously. On being shown a picture of the monster reported to have been shot in Arizona he declared it looked just like the creature he had seen.
Of course both stories are improbable, but the coincidence is just a trifle peculiar.