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Show A WILD MAN AT LARGE The Thrilling Episode That Broke Into the Hungiy Horde of Lunch Fiends. AUGUSTUS HAEEIS' MISFOETDNE. In a Moment of Delirium Ho Knocks Out the Landlord and Escapes to the Street. Shortly after 12 o'clock while First South street was crowde d with march-ing march-ing phalanxes, on their way to the meridian mpss, the columns were suddenly sud-denly broken by the nude body of a colored man that shot with the thunder of an avalanche from a passage way leading to the upper floors of the Raymond Ray-mond lodging house. The crowd bolted backward, a bevy of women let forth a blood-curdling, soprano yell, and the officers rushed upon the dusky column of Senegambian nakedness that stood planted in the liquidescent bosom of the street. The fellow was wild and would have taxed the muscle )f any two men but the strength of a half dozen was pooled and tho poor fellow with glaring eyes and snorting nostrils was overpowered and taken to the city jail. There he was taken in hand by Captain Lange and three others, who undertook to stretch him out on a temporary bunk. Here the fellow showed the resistance of a veritable Ajax, and it was not until he hadwrithod himself into utter exhaustion exhaus-tion that they got him under control. At 1 o'clock this afternoon a number of .his colored friends took charge of him and ho was removed to tho hospital. At the Raymond house it was ascertained as-certained that the unfortunate follow had been registered on its books three nights ago as Augus tus Harris. Dr. Marshall was summoned sum-moned to attend him and found the poor fellow litterally parching with fever. He prescribed for him and has not since been summoned. About noon today Richard Hope, manager of the lodging house was engaged in the hallway hall-way when he was startled by a chargingarmy-tread and the exclamation: "I am Jesus Christ!" Looking up Mr. Hope received a blow from tho imaginary Jehovah that lent him to grass and before ho could recover the assailant had put forward down the stairway and into the street. Dr. Marshall states that one of the chief symptoms of typhoid fever is a delirum that takes the form and shape of typomania, a mania that almost invariably results in death. . The friends of Harris are taking care that he is provided with every attention, while Mr. Hope of the Raymond is taking tak-ing care of a black eye. The incident so long as it was exposed to the gaze of the public created intense excitement and the feminine portion of the phalanx made it suddenly convenient to proceed on a different route. |