The Concord Evening Tribune reported a search for a supposed panther that ended with a young woman found near Thoroughfare Island and taken to a physician at Indiantown. The report did not name her.
Its Elizabeth City dateline is 23 September 1907; the Sunday rescue date of 22 September is inferred. The report was relayed through an informant, not credited to an identified eyewitness. Similarities to the later Wild Mag account are striking, but the identity link is unproved.
Source reference
“Sad Finding of a Young Girl,” Evening Tribune (Concord, North Carolina), 24 September 1907, page 1, column 4; Elizabeth City dateline 23 September.