The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-08-11
Remarkable E soaps.
A Sleeping Boy Deserts a Nov.
inc Tram,

Ing IRAN.
TO What Somnambu\ism is due has I
been u subject of discussion among
scientific minds at all times, without /
accord or remedy. The freaks and !.
fancics of "slccp walkers have dc.
vclopcd incidents always interesting, |
sometimes most amusing and ludi !
crous and sometimes sadly and pain
fully exciting.
A case of more than ordinary in
tcrest occurred a day or two ago on
a Pullman palace car upon a south
going train or the Iron Mountain
Road. The subject was young man
sixteen years OF age, son OF Mr..
Hanglin, master mechanic on the
Texas Pacific Road, and residing 1T
Marshall, Texas.
Young lIany|iu, in charge of his
mother was returning home from st.
Louis, where he had been at school
the past year. His mother knowing
his somnanlbuliStic fluctuations, and
of their special development in the
excitement Of travelling, before re-
firing for the night communicated
the same to the conductor, and OK
pressed her fears for his safety. Capt.
Robb, the conductor, ut once relieved
her fears by making his porter watch
man and assigning him y position
where csrrss from the beth of the
cxcitable youth could could be Oh
served.
The night wolc on aud all was qui-
ct; still the porter "Watcl'tul vigil
kept" The mother, wakeful from
snlicitudc for her son, even though, so
well guarded, felt impellcd to look in
upon him, "to satisfy her foolish fears
that all was WE'LL" and took opportu
nifty upon the temporary stopping OF
the train at q station. Imagine her
horror at fu,liny his bed vacated,
the berth without its occupant. The
shlicks of the now distracted mother
8 aroused her frllow-passcngcrs, and
8 called officers and employees of the
car to her side. Di|igent search was
T. made throughout the long train to
! satisfy the mother only, for the quick
6 eve of the conductor detected at once
= the open window of the youths sec
+ ton, and was alive to the slckenlng
.. conviction of violent death, and to
+ tho belief that all that was left the
mother of her son was a mutllate(
=. body. Ho concealed, however, his
convictions, desiring by continued
a hope, alternating with her fears du
= ring the short time before his tat'
+ must be known. to break, in a meas
~ urc, the great shock awaiting her.
+. \ haud-ca and men were provided
Il to make with her search for the los
" youth.
=. INC Journey was made in silcnc
8 and dread, each moment cxpectan
y that their worst fears would be reall
:, zed. At length the whole rout
y: (from the place where he retired) wa
y rctravelled without discovery or sig
III of remains. Hope frightened III tn
a possible chance of his having escape
cr at station on the way, and the
ts turned southwark again, hating t
a. make inquiry at every station wher
" Il stop had been made. At length A
IS a country house by the way, whcl
-, music, anciny and merry making wa
y. the order Of the night, they wei
m hailed with the inquiry if they knc
es anything of a lost boy. Entering Il
10 cabin the youth WAS found, thong
He not in full party dress, quite unco'
IN cerned and enjoying fully tho rust
" festival and dance. A "section hant
III on his way to the dance found Il
his voang man in his night attire, sour
"r. asleep by the track, apparently as
,nt had dropped from the train. Tic vi
me-, ,o aroused with difficulty from his sou'
'ot nap, and found to be without inj"
I I" or scratch from his fall, and witho
w. knowledge oven of his leap from,
r Is . having been left by tho flying tral
10" At the spot where he was found t.
toa train was running at the rate
, rod thirty five miles per hour Nj
ooL hundred and ninety nine cases II
' W" thousand a person in normal cone
, 'o" ton would have been mashed tt
w., Jelly from the fall. What protect
' 'un this youth in his abnol mal conditi
ean from bruisc or scratch is mystery
TO- -, 4 problem to be left to wiser heads
LA u" solye:-St. Louis Republican.
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