The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1882-06-02
csIME IN SARATOGA.

Saratoga was greatly excited yester-
day on the discovery Of an appalling
and unnatural crime. We give the
particulars hastily as they came TO us:
As the guests Of the United States
Hotel were departing for the races Eli
Perkins walked briskly up to the desk
and informed Mr.. Gage one Of the
proprietors Of tho States. that Govern
or Jewoll, Of Connecticut, had jsst
thrown his son out Of tho window, and
10 please
What window-.whersl" interrupt
ed dozen voices at once.
"Out Of the fourth story back" said
Mr. Perkins, "Onto the picket fence
What! threw his own son out oi
the windowl" broke in hr. Vanderbilt.
"Yea suppose it was his own son,
said Nr. PeTkins quietly. "and a weak
y son too. You geo ! wanted 10 SEQ
-"
"By hsavensl What are we coming
tot, exclaimed Robert Cutting end
John Kelly, ,'wringing their haHd--"and
what was the provocationi What had
the son donel'
Nothing at alP' said SIR. Perkins
"You see, asked Governor jewell
bis son WAS there. lie said yes on the
lsungs here, and throw"
81 know" interrupted Mr.. TrAvsrs,
"the u-n natural f.f-fsther MN made q
R-srab and th-th.threw bis own son
down on the picket fence b-b-belew.
o. th-tL-tks ff-6sndl"
"Just so," said Mr Perkins, lighting
q cigar.
Ry this time there vas great excite
ment throughout the hotcl. Ladies,
heajsd by John Hay. white with OK
cltsment, came rushing over from the
cottages. wringing their hands, and the
stronger men, like Senator Freling-
huysen and Governor Cornell were
ready to lynch the author Of this fena.
iah act. As the local reporter Of the
"Saratogian' arrived on the spot, Mr.
Gage and Mr.. Tompkins. accompanied
by Dir. Leonard jerome and Colonel
Kane; ran around the hotel 10 zee the
victim of this dreadful crime. Senator
Warner Miller aud Mayor Smith Ely
accompanied them 10 take the dying
boy from the sharp pickets and 70 Ia ks
bis post.mortem statements.
Eli Perkins was the only unsKeited
nan aJoat. He sat quietly reading Liz
newspaper.
why don't yon get excited, about
this fiendish ast Elif' exclaimed Dir
Marvin.
"rNhst e~nlish ae'l' s,ked Mr. Per
kins.
",gby man throwing bis son-hiI
oaly son sat of fourth story window.
II dcu't ssc s.nythsEg ferdish sbou
i, - said Rli, il was an cid son and o
no u$s u The Governor, and
mo use to the Generall ard do yo'
think, because Governor jewell ba'
no use for his son he bad right t,
throw such a son out Of the ~indowf
interrupted Isaac \. Phelps.
"Why, Of course he bad right Z
do As he chose with bis own son" safe
| Mr.. Perkins. As | was saying,
told the Governor to just toss it do~'
TO me, and he gave it throw, and it
"I,i what do you mean by calling
boy an itF' interrupted dozen voice
"Wky, who said it was boyP sal
Mr.. Perkins greatly, surprised 81 sal
Governor Jewell threw bis San, q week
| ly Sun, out ofths windew to me. |
Was an ED Sun; be had read It and
wanted 10 read it myself, and"
| In just two minutes by Judge Fitch
old yellow watch, the Office was elsars
and no one heard hew Eli Psrkin
finished the sentence. Somebody tol
our reporter that Eli was trying to |
lustrats the prOverb that "truth abs
lutte truth, is sometimes stranger tha
fiction"