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NEWS ITEMS Cross County Arkansas Genealogy Trails TWO TOES, April 7, 1930 TWO TOES TIME Magazine, April 7, 1930 For ten years this wolf, called Two Toes because of mutilations suffered escaping from traps, had led his hungry pack through the forests of eastern Arkansas. The pack killed hundreds of sheep, goats, cows. Near the scattered bones enraged cattle owners always found the tracks of a huge, two-toed paw. Trappers, hunters, government rangers tried constantly and unsuccessfully to kill Two Toes. Last fortnight he and his pack killed 14 goats in one day. Describing this as murder, Sheriff E. L. Cooper and Deputy Prosecuting Attorney James Robertson of Cross County, Ark., called for the best hounds in the state and a posse of huntsmen. They found the pack at dawn, separated Two Toes from his followers, cornered him at noon. Tired, fiery-eyed, froth-mouthed and snarling, he made his last stand in the hollow of the fallen log. He was taken to Memphis, Tenn., to spend the rest of his life in a cage at the Zoo. ©2006 Arkansas Genealogy Trails |