New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-11
ONCE Is A DOSE.
The Strange Gentleman Who Rushed
Into DOninick DIurrRy's Bedroom.

Into DOlninick MurrRy's Bedroom.
We copy the following from the Balti
more America51, merely remarking that the
story was narrated TO us confdentially al
the time by Mr.. Murray. The prominent
actor who sought safety in Mr.. Murray
room was member of the House of Repre-
sentatives, who stood by Governor War
moth and the State administration
An amusing story is told Of Dominiek
Murray, the actor, who has just returned
from an engagement in New Orleans.
During late excitement there in the Legis-
lature, pending some very important meas
ure, and over which the House was about
equally divided, q certain Senator, upon
whose vote great dependence had been
placed by his party, sold ont to the other
side, and 80 defeated his friends. His sud
den and unlOOked-fOr apOstaey caused great
confusion, and called down curses both
loud and deep upon him. So incensed was
his party that he found it advisable to beat
a retreat, and go to his lodgings.
On the night of the occurrence Murray
was aroused from his slumbers by the
sound Of voices in the street directly under
meath his window. The words he was Occa-
siOnally able to catch were not calculated
to restore sweet slumber. Such expressions
as 1.-TWO of you go up to his rOOm''-''Do it
and leaVe''-"Well see he don't get past
us'-were not, to say the least, reassuring
in lonely street on a dark night, and in
city not particularly identified with law and
order. Presently there was a hurried sound
of footsteps, which suddenly stopped before
his. own door, followed by an impatient
knocking, interspersed with a vocal demand
for admittance in unmistakable English.
Open the door, quick!"
WHO are you y asked the ast0nished
Murray.
open the door, say, or by -, III break
it in" A tremendous bangj.
Trembling with vague sense of mid
night assassination, Murray nervOusly
drew the bolt, made a spring for the bed,
seized the nearest missile within reach, and
struck an attitue of defense. which would
have been thrilling but for its grotesqueness..
lie had scarcely got into position when
the door was flung open, and a man In his
night shirt, armed with q huge navy re-
vOlver in each hand, rushed into the apart
ment, shut and bolted the door, blew out
the light, and with a spring planted him
self IN the bed up to the arm-pits, leaving
only the navy pistols menacing either side \
of the cOverIet.
What the DEVILS the matter ?" asked
Murray.
"ShGt up! Put down that thing and
come to bed y responded the stranger.
'Put it down or I'll blow your roof off /! |
Now, then, come to bed and go to sleep"
II prefer sitting up objected the actor.
A sharp click of the pistol and sup
pressed imprecatiOn decided the bewildered |
Murray, who crawling into the sheets, kept |
q respectable distance from his companion. |
The voices in the street had by this time |
but the tramp of many feet |
through the hall indicated the activity of |
lhe pursuit. Failing to find their prey in |
lis ROOM the pursuers naturally concluded |
their man had anticipated them and es
capped They left the house, and departed /
)n new scent. As the carnage drove
away, the stranger leaped out of the bed,
opened the door, aud, without word of
left Murray to his reflections.
Two or three nights afterward, the pOliti-
'aI excitement continuing, Murray was
again awakened by loud knocking at his
iOOr.
''Whe's there y demanded the comedian.
BLANK was the reply.
"What do you wantf' testify asked Muir
ay.
"The same as before" replied the poHti,
ian.
f. $50 to the devil and be hanged ~ was
he response. ave had that before, and
nee ia a DOSE" and jumping into bed, Muir
ay left the disturber Of his slumbers to get
ut Of his difficulty che best way he could.