Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-05-04
..The Fellow that Looks Like Me-.

Mrs. Grinnell lives at Newark. Ohio.
She once had a husband. Mr. sGrinnell,
don't reside at Newark much. Joe is
easily satisfied, and is of changeful
disposition; consequently he "weak-
ened" on Mrs. Joe in three weeks after
marriage. But Mrs. Joe proposed to
have husband, and started three po-
icemen on Mr. yJoe's track. While on
Joe's track they also got on the track Of
the New Jersey Central railroad, in front
of a locomotive. On the locomotive was
Thomas Palmer called Tom for short.
At sight of Tom these gallant guardians
made rush for him. One of them
seized Mr.. Palmer, accompanying the
movement with the exclamation, "Joe,
l want you" AS Tom was not accus-
toned to being handled SO roughly he
mildly. protested, and furthermore in
formed the trio that they had evidently
mistaken their man. " No we havn' t,oa
chimed in the largest of the party,
you're just the bird we want ; come
along with us, or there will be trouble
in the camp" The loud talk of the Off
Ger and the protestations of Palmer at
tracted to the spot the braken1en Of the
train, the conductor, and numbers of
the passengers. - ID. 4. &c
AS the time for the departure of the
train had arrived, the conductor mildly
0ApOSGuldG0O Will GH0 anu
formed them that they were entirely
mistaken in regard to Palmer. His name
was not "Joe," nor had he ever been
guilty of a mean action. Besides"
said the conductor, III cannot spare him;
here is my train ready to go, and how
can the engineer possibly get along
without a fireman? If you persist in
arresting him, come to Jersey City and
do SO he will not run away" This ex-
asperated the officers, who seemed per-
fectly blind to justice, and they pulled
Palmer from the car and started up the
street, cursing, an officer on each side of
the prisoner and one in the rear. The
railroad men grew maddened at this
outrage and pistols were drawn, and
rescue would have been attempted had
! not several influential gentlemen inter-
fered who witnessed the scene. Palmer
was pulled and hauled, and fairly
| dragged through the streets, and finally
brought to standstlll in front of a cot
tage four or five blocks from the depot.
One of the officers stepped to the door
and knocked, an elderly female opened
the door and the four entered.
Palmer had faced death on the rail,
had met the foe on the field of battle
but this strange and startling dsnou-
ment was utterly beyond his compre-
hension, and for once in his life his
teeth began to chatter. The gas was lit
by the same female, and then for the
first time after they had entered the
room. the silence was broken by the
large officer, who said: Madame, we
have got your truant- husband" This
was a sumner for poor Tom. My God,
gentlemen, what does all this mean ?''
he said; am as innocent as babe. l
assure you there has been great mis-
take, or else there has been plot laid
to ruin me-" Turning to the woman do
l resemble your husband" At this the
woman, after eagerly scanning his face,
answered in the negative, and the pris-
oner was at once released, and he ran to
the depot, where he found the train still
standing, and an excited crowd talking
over the outrage. He resumed his usu-
al station, and the train arrived at J er-
sey City an hour behind time. Here
Tom found out what the trouble was
and started for his home whistling the
tune, "The fellow that looks like me.