Show lIS IS Js NEARLY GRAZED CRAZED i WITH MOSQUITOS Man in Lilly Pad Suit Becomes Frantic in Fighting Insects 4 4 J. J STRIPPED TO GET FLOWERS Tr With Leaves His Clothes Clothes- and He is T Taken f for l Mad Ma t Man t or La Lacrosse ros e. e Wis Aug AuS' 30 O Of Of all tough luck Juel stories over told William r C Sommers who was picked up by railroad railroad rail rall- road men near neur this city has about bout the tho worst When hen h he was found after an on effort to gather pond lilies he was garbed garled in an old pair of overalls o for Cor fora or a n brooch breech clout a jacket of oC lily pads I trousers of the same hare bare feet teet cut and torn and 1 last but hul not by auy any means least a n boll body so ro c covered cred with mosquito bites that the man was al almost almost almost al- al most crazed As though this were not bad enough Insult was added 1 to the tho very real Injury when he was se seen 11 b by children near tear th the tue city They thought he lie was a wild m i. i and Ind were so fr frightened that he could not persuade per per- suade an any of them to conic como close to tell teU his tale laic of wo woe and get set seta a assistance Sommers' Sommers was out of tho the city along tho tha river division of ot Ute the railroad witha with witha a switching crow crew While his cn engine and some omu empties vero on a t siding waiting waiting- for COl a a. passenger train to pass pasi Sommers sighted some pond near b by Stripping stark nal naked ed he Marled after them first carefully depositing his clothes In one of oC the empty box cars cargo The others of tho the crew did not mj m him hini so o when the passenger train pa passed sed with nearly 1 neck deep gathering hubs llie switching crow pulled out loo ln leaving In his complexion and the mosquitoes as u u. wardrobe There being no ive tive s picked up a n. bit hR of old overalls made made made-It It go as its far n as as' It would and finished his c cOstume with lily pads sewed sowed together to with th the stems and nd then started for fOl town When seen coming oming down the track tracIe children ran run screaming creaming to their thell m mothers th Word vas waa sent to town that a wild man was walking on the road with numerous weird descriptions of his l attempts to attack children A special engine was was sent out to make the capture und and Sommers was captured b by his own fireman |