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Show MAN ASLEEP mm Floating Down Stream All Unconscious of His Danger New York, July 8. James Madden, a young man of Brooklyn, was float- Ing down the North river shortly af- ter midnight this morning, enjoying a cool, refreshing sleep, when the crew i of the tug Interstate sighted him. Naturally thinking It was a dead ' body, they thrust a boathook Into , Madden's liody and pulled him aboard, i He was appnrently unconconsclous at ! the time, but Captain Moorehead of the tug says Madden came to shortly after the tug reched Herpler and began be-gan to abuse him for having spoiled ! his (Madden's) sleep. His lang;.-.p? waa so violent that he was arrested. In the night court this morning, Madden salj he had been riding on a ferry boat and had fallen asleep. He could not remember how he came to be in the river. He said he had Just two drinks before boarding the ferryboat. ferry-boat. Magistrate Herriman fined the prisoner pris-oner $3 on the charge of Intoxication. He said he did It to give Madden a chance to rpst up. Captain Moorehead of the tug estl- : mates that Madden must have been in the river nearly two hours. How i he ramaincd afloat so long Is a rays- ! tery. j |