The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1879-03-06
HILL LSBQROUGH, HIGHLAND COUNTY, OHIO, THURSDAY MI
and he won't know where to come after

and he won't know where to come after
ALL"
Here again was a mistaken guess, Tor
4 second thought might have informed
him that the number Of every cab ad-
mitted in the railway station was known;
! that he had given direction to the driver
before being accOsted by the officer, and
thereby the latter had obtained his ad-
dress and that if the case had been OF
sufficient importance, the cab could
easily have been followed by another,
even if the driver had not been IN
struCted to notify the officer where he
left his fare.
However, our tourist, being somewhat
uneasy, related the affair to an English
friend whom he met on arrival at the
! hotel, who did not relieve his anxiety
by looking grave, shaking his head, and
remarking they had better both go to
! the railway managers Office. This they
/ did, and through the Intervention of q
personal friend to one Of the directors,
after apologies and explanations, the
American departed, glad to have got nd.
as he supposed, of the unpleasantness.
About five days after, having mean
time changed his hotel, our American
citizen had business down IN the CITY.
after transacting, which he had agreed
to meet his wife and friend at West
minister Hall, to view that noted build
ing. Standing near the entrance, and
awaiting her coming, he was astonlshed
to observe her to be accompanied by
two gentlemen instead of one. The
second was introduced as a person who
had called at the hotel to see the Ameri-
can on private business, He was a re-
spectable looking individual about fifty
years of age, dressed in pepper and salt,
and stepping aside, presented to the
tourist his card, which bore the inscrlp-
ton: "Mr. John Lund, Chief Of Police,
bennington"
He was very polite was very sorry
ne had a very disagreeable duty to per-
form and he drew out formidable
looking document with a prodigious
formula of English expressions, and
several staring seals, which cited the
offense our traveller had committed upon
one Of her majesty's servants, and sum
n1oned the offender to appear on the fol-
lowing Wednesday, Git was then SatuT-
dav), at ''the aforesaid bennington.
dI was coming up to London myself"
said the official, apologetically, and
thought I would serve this, to make 1t
as comfortable as possible"
It was useless for the American to
state that the matter had all been settled
by the railway manager; Of this the
polite chief Of police knew nothing.
The first arrest was probably at the in
stance Of the railway company in Lon
don; but this was by the police author
tiles at bennington, of which he was /
chief. The official would not be salts |
fed except by visit of the American /
and responsible friend again to the |
managers Office at the London station. |
where it was arranged that the traveller /
would appear and answer on the follow !
ing week, if the affair was not settled |
before; and the polite chief of the |
bennington police took his departure.
The visit to Westminster hall was
given up for that day, and the American
began to wish he had never jumped on /
that railroad train. Supposing all right |
now, however, he forgot all about ii /
again, until it was unpleasantly brought |
to mind on the following Sunday by a |
note sent him by private hand, from his
friend, to aplace where he was spending
the day.
This note informed him that the affair
had quite a serious look; that the gen
eral managers at bennington had been
mulcted for damages for an accident that |
occurred at that point a few months
since, and that his jumping on the train
had been witnessed by two Of the pTin-
cipal directors, as well as by one Of the
local police, and it was determined to
punish any such criminal reCklessness,
hence tie summons, etc. This the Lon
don railway officer had, by his personal
influence succeeded in postpOning for
few days, but an expense Of G3 los.
had been incurred, and perhaps it
would be best to arrange that before
Mr.. John Lund or another official came
up to London again.
Our American was now getting ner
VOus and scared. He at once saw his
English friend in London, and proceeded
to arrange the matter as suggested.
Then, returning to his hotel, he ordered
a cab to take him to a railway station,
and having discharged the cabman, he
took another cab and drove to a new
hotel, in the hope that by this means
Mr.. John Lund might be lodged until
he departed for Paris, which seems to
have been successfully done; but the
reason therefor was explained in the
following letter, sent to him by his
friend, who had arranged matters, and
who received it from railway authorities:
81 think have arranged matters for
the Withdrawal of the summons The
expenses incurred amount to three
pounds, ten shillings. If your American
friend pays this, and at the same time
wishes to benefit the widow and orphans
fund association Of the railway line, a
check for five pounds in full win be
received"
It is almost unnecessary to state that
he Americans English friend did the
leedful thing instanter, and the Amer
iCan himself breathed freer accordingly,
it had cost him twenty-five
dollars for jumping upon an English
train in motion. a