| Show UNKNOWN I HOBOS NERVE Exchanged Clothing WHh f Pullman Paten 5 Jl r I While l Latter Slept and Then Caused His Victim to Be Thrown Off Train Talklnir about a case of mistaken identity 1 guess Im the biggest vlo I tlm of the kind that ever happened said the stranger to the night clerk as he wearily scrawled the name Ii TJ JVoodfern S V on the register at the Vindsor hotel Yc he continued con-tinued Im so mad that I smell smoke Do I look like a hobo he temandcd breaking off his lamentation lamenta-tion No sir answered the nIGht clerk who Is of a timid disposition and feared trouble Well 1 I was taken for one sir day before yesterday sir and It cost me a walk jf twenty miles over a blanked blankccT desert and the price of a new outfIt and l if I dont make a certain railroad company pay for it nil then Ananias will get the red nag along oC Inl If you want to heal about it say so at once and dont stand there looking as if 1 wren a freak The timid clerk said he would becharmed be-charmed and delighted to hear Mr VVoodferns story and the latter bitIng bit-Ing off the end of a cigar viciously lit the wrong end with a Chinese match and c6n Untied I had been at Tonopah he said inspecting some mining property and had after a hard stage drive from the town been forced to walt five hours for a train and consequently when it arrived I went Into the t Pullman and securing a berth went right to bed T was awakened about 5 oclock in thin morning by the feeling that nil wag nol right in the berth which my money had paid for and opening my eyes I looked around The first thing T noticed no-ticed was the absence of my clothes and as the pocket of my coat contained all the money I had with me I at once became wide awake On the floor of the car and pushed partly under the berth T found a null of ragged dirty clothing and an old pair of brogan shines but I my own shoes were gone and 1 realized that T had been thoroughly robbed l and began calling for the porter por-ter lie came but when he caught Ight of me blood was In his eye Man he shouted Whats yo all doin In de gemmans berf Get right out ob dnr and jump ofen Ills train To de ol man sees yo Aint do rods good crnuff fo yo wldout comln In yere and mos scandnlhln Insertin yoseif Into nnnudder mans bunk What in the blankety blank blank are you talking about I demanded Ive been robbed of my clothes and 1 everything ev-erything I had and Ill make It hot for you T was going on In the same strain and loudly demanding the presence pres-ence Of the ioaductor when from the emokingroom emerged the figure of a man who much to my astonishment and disgust was dressed In my clothes from head to foot He had 1 on my shoes mid my hut und a watch charm which mv wife gave me for a birthday present dangled on the fob hanging from his watch pockot Well of all the nerve I ever heard of lie exclaimed as he came toward me Porter do you mean to tell me this company permits bums and hoboes ho-boes to net Into Pullman cars uul sleep Inl1s patrons beds Stop the train and 1 have him put off at once He mart have got on at the last nation na-tion while 1 was in the smokingroom Thank your slurs looking at me that 1 dont hand you over to the authorities authori-ties Mako him put on his clothe porter while I hunt up the conductor I and leaving me stupefied he went down the aisle and disappeared into the next car When the conductor comes you will find out some things I told the negro The oilier fellow is the hobo and he has taken my clothes and assumed as-sumed my name and I presume he has even road my letters but when the conductor I con-ductor comes hell have that nervy individual in-dividual thrown off the train without slackening speed and I Intend to Hue the company and have everybody on the blanked train flied T cried losing my temper entirely The porter had boon fishing around under the berth and now emerged with the tramps clothes Put on demo clothes wile man an doan lose no lime he ordered or-dered gruffly cause ef yo aln got em on wen dc conductah comes yoll go off de train in yotiah undahclocs By this time other pans engers were wakening wak-ening up and heads were being pushed through the curtains up and down the I aisle I i Throw the bum off and let me sleep I I I TUstus said the man in the berth next I to mine while a young girl I across the aisle cried hysterically 0 Mummah Isnt it tea rrible We might have been murrrdored in our0 berths Seeing nothing else to do I put on the rags I but vowcd 1 would have he life ore J or-e I onc on the train if I lived long enough As I finished clothing myself I my-self In the nondescript raiment of the I tramp I heard him coming down the I i aisle with the conductor and by the noise I Judged that the conductor was I angry I guessed right for as he reached my berth he swept the curtain back and catching me by the collar dragged me Into the aisle He was inarticulate from rage and so was T In fact 1 was worse for I was foaming at the mouth Thats the hobo con duclor said the interloper D his Impudence Breaking away from the guardian of the car 1 turned to him making an effort to keen calm You know me I said You sold me my ticket last night This other man Is the tramp and he has got my clothes and my money mo-ney I dont want him put off hut 1 want him held until we reach Ogden and some day I hope to ade < him hunt by the State authorities If you put me off youll regret It and your company com-pany will too Sassy hobo cul In the tramp In my clothes put him off at once Dont you see he Is frightening the women You must be a dope head ex elainud the ofllcial as he again caught me by the I arm a i I never sold you a ticket and never saw you before unless it was the time I visited l San Quentin penitentiary Off you go Never T cried and flung > myself at the scoundrel The conductor and the porter reinforced by several h pas Bengers flung themselves on me and T was dragged to the platform of the car and thrown off on a pile of Hand and to add Insult a to Injury as dazed by my sudden ejectment I sat and watched the train disappear there I carte floating back from the rear of thi train the sneering laugh of the Impos tor and the words Twenty miles to a station To make a long story short T walked those twenty miles and then some and finally caught n freight train I bought these clothes In Ogden through a man who knew me 1 am bore now waiting for money as I have to return at once to San Francisco but I shall conic back here in my search around the world for the person who outraged me in such I a manner T shall also Instruct my Attorneys t to Iil µ suit for fiuoooo dmi m UKNJ suralnst thp railroad company I L I will by Gad tllr |
