| Show bound to the tho track an old german named john scarcely able to walk from illness might have been seel seen on our streets on friday last begging 4 for bread he is sixty five years of ageana age and is slowly recovering from a protracted spell of sickness this old man reached cairo calro on friday after a trip ot of miles every avery foot of which was made on foot his feeble feebie condition he started with 10 IL his pocket bocket and made his journey on foot roo t 1 in the hope that on his arriva in cairo he would have money enough left to pay his passage t to troy ind near which place he lit hoped to find a brother at a point on an the illinois central railroad rail Bail road a few miles below duquoin he met mel i couple of negro men who halted alm aim rudely threw him to the ground and proceeded to rob him he ele had bad seven of his ten dollars and this sum the broes appropriated but the cupidity of the black devik was not yet satisfied they stripped him of every article of clothing ue tie had on his person including his big stockings und and neckerchief the rho old man as naked a w when he came into the world now attempted attempt ed to tomake make his way to the thi friendly cin fin adly clump of bushes but the fiends again overhauled him brought him back to the railroad track and rudely flung him down rearing the shirt they had taken from his hib back into strips they bound alm aim hand and foot and then lashed his head upon the rail that the thi p passing assing train might crush it from h his 1 s body the mere contemplation of such cold blooded fiend ashness brings a shudder of horror A half an hour or more elapsed and ahe the old man still tied to the rail tail heard beard the clattering of an approaching train he struggled desperate into ly to remove himself and at the very moment the train which proved to be a handcar filled with section men stopped he succeeded in freeing himself he then told his lila story was furnished by one ol 01 the men with a pair ir of overalls mother another gave him a common white whitt hirt shirt and at a neighboring house houst he secured an old pair of shoes and hadj hat and in this garb he reached carlo carfo carlo ill III Bulletin Aug 5 |
