THE EVENING TIMES — DECEMBER 30, 1908
Pike County Woodsman Wondering if Bad Luck Will Come to McKean.
Milford, Pa., Dec. 30.—George C. McKean shot a white buck near his home in McKean valley, along the Shohola, in the hunting season just closed, and the old-time native hunters who cling to the superstition that killing a white deer will surely bring bad luck are wondering what will happen to him. This is the fourth white deer of which there is a record hereabouts.
First, James Van Gorden shot in the Lackawaen country the first white deer of the Pike county record. It was a large doe. The Chronicle says:
“It was his last shot. A wasting disease attacked him and not long afterward he died.”
Years after that Joseph Brink, Alamanzo Griswold and William Westfall were hunting together. In the hunt a white deer was killed. Westfall always declared that it was Joseph Brink’s shot that killed it. At any rate, Brink, who was a robust man at the time of the hunt, was dead of what the natives called hasty consumption three months later.
Alamanzo Griswold was subsequently killed by the upsetting of a wagonload of stone. The killing of the white deer seemed to have no damaging effect on Westfall, and later, having followed the trail of another white deer and shot at it several times without success, he guided a hunting party, consisting of Hornbeck Shimer, and Henry Frank of Wilkesbarre, Pa., and Lyman Bevan of Port Jervis, New
