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Show EFFORT TO REACH CALIFORNIA FRUSTRATED CONSUMPTIVE STOWS HIMSELF ' AWAY IN AUTOMOBILE. Machines Were Being Shipped to California, Cal-ifornia, But He Is Discovered Before Train Leaves. Cleveland, June 19. Believing that J his life would be saved if he reached reach-ed California, Thomas Noonan. a con-! con-! sumptlve, twenty years of age, stow-led stow-led himself away in an automobile that ! was being shipped to San Francisco ' from here yesterday, and prepared to make the long trip across the country. : An Inspector, from the automobile factory, fac-tory, found the young man in the machine, ma-chine, and thus tne consumptive's plans were frustrated. Noonan was an employe of the factory fac-tory from which the machines were being shipped, and when ho heard that I tho cars were to be sent to San Fran-i Fran-i Cisco, he asked permission to accompany accom-pany them, but his employers refused to grant his request, and he decided to go without their permission. Noonan had stored away enough food to last him for ten days in one of the machines, padded the floor of the car so that he might fclc-ep In ! comfort, and a short time before the i train was ready to start, he crawled J into his bunk. |