The Jersey Devil is blamed for the loss of nine sheep in West Orange, New Jersey.
Devil is Blamed for Death of Sheep
WEST ORANGE, N.J., September 20, 1924 — Now it looks as if the reports of the Jersey devil’s death were “greatly exaggerated,” as Mark Twain once remarked.
The darn critter bobbed up again the night before last in West Orange, N.J., and George Merck blames if for the nine sheep he lost.
Last week somebody killed a peculiar animal in the Orange Mountains. It looked something like a fox, and yet it didn’t have that indefinable something that a fox often has. It looked something like an East African lillipunk (?), too, and yet around the eyes it looked more like a gazilch (?).
“The Jersey devil,” said somebody, and hove vast sighs of relief.
Yesterday, George Merck of the Merck Chemical Company, telephoned the West Orange police and told them that the Jersey devil, or something just as hungry, had on Wednesday night killed nine sheep at the Mercy farm in Llewellyn Park, outside West Orange.
Now everybody is nervous again.
Source: The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]), 20 Sept. 1924.
