The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-03-11
Hs4DLY SCARED.
What "a Mans Imagination
WIFI Cause Him TO DO.

1t was at least ? o'clock
EXAMINER rep ,rter passed up Austin
avenue to see if he could not catch late
item. ami took position near the
McC elland house, corner. All the way
from the office to the place where he stop
ped. he did not SEE Single person and al
Ter a time he walked one block futher up
ana .stopp tow minutes and still
seeing no on. he conc uded tliat the city
was hus;Ied in Slumbrr and II traced his
steps with the intention OF going home.
When he got as far back as tn McCielland
house he heard steps on the walk and
soon SAW some ore coming near the Waco
state bank. After standing still minute
he noticed that the sound OF steps had
ceased and locke down the street, but
saw no one. About this time his attention
was attract, Il TO some one walking down
Fourth street and in the moonlight he
appeared 10 be near the murket-house.
Before the reporter had again
turned his eye down Aus
tin avenue lie heard rapid steps on the
pavement and tw man coming up on
a lively run. When he got to where the
reporter was standing he, in very eX-
cited manner asked, ARE you police
man The reporter answered that he
was not but might secure one if il was an
urgent case. The man, who was a we'll
dressed person. AMI a stranger to the re-
porter. then SAID there was Il man stand
ing in a window few doors below who
was a! out in the act of shooting him
when he started and ian to avoid being
tit. He sail he was positive the man in
tended to shoot him. The reporter
t,f n
excitement and recdy 10 run again he was
so badly scared. it the wind should whistle
around the 60 ner. The reporter ques-
toned him tor some moments to learn If
he might not have an attack of "delcrum
Tremendous or amGthing else and found
that he talked very sensible. After Il
time he got somewhat cool, and the re-
porter proposed 10 accompany him
if he thought he could point
out the man or the place where
he stood. He would not be
induced to take this walk back on the
same side of the street, but said he would
go down on the opposite side. Arriving
opposite Eikle Il Breustedts he was asked
to point out the man but could not DO so.
When told that the man he saw was only
Imagination he still insisted that he could
not have been mistaken, because he saw
the man. pistol in hand, and he could
point out the very window in which he
stood. He finally agreed to 90 to the
Waco State Bank and walk up near enough
to see the window. After he had pilOted
the reporter Just beyond the Commercial
he became very cautious and at last jump
Ing up against the wall he remarked,
there lie stands ThtrepOrter could see
no. one and begun to seriously think that
the stranger was crazy, or playing prac-
teal Joke, bur he became very nervous
and kept on insisting that he saw the man.
Stepping a little closer 10 the edge OF the
walk the reporter ut last saw the man and
for moment did not know whether to
break and run and give the man Il second
scare or laugh out in his face. The would
be assassin Was standing In John Sleeper
window and to Il person with 4 strong
Imagination it might be mistaken Tor Il
sure enough man. In the lower part OF
Tie window hung 4 pair of long rubb Il
boots. the top of one them pro rudng to
ward The window like a man balanced
for a spring. just above the boOt- ana =
little father back, hung something rcsem-
bling II lOw-siZed man.ir0m the shoulders
to The waist and just IN front OF il, was
one OF the carved hr IS rods on which the
goods are hung and II looked Just like the
curve OF Il mans arm holding a weapon.
ABB these hunga bat, IN from The
way the moonlight struck the windOw
ard the siA lows on the inside. the whole
dit not look unlike the ligure of Il man.
After breaking out ina laugh at him the
stranger came up AMI Joined in heartily.
After some conversation, we asked HIM
point blank " Where be was fram. but he
refused 10 say more than that
lie did not live in Texas
and would not have the Joke get
out on him FOR ANYTHING in the world. lie
admjtl'd being almost out of his wits and
certainly looked that way. lie could not
be seen anywhere yesterday and probr-
bly, he was only looking at Texas, and
took the train Tor some other place in tht.
morning. No doubt tie had heard sOmr
fearful tales about the state and thought
that when he saw that thing in the win
dow, his time had come. His dress Ian
gauge and all indicated that he is a man
ct some refinement and Intelligence and
WIS too old to got scared at Il harmless
object like that, if he had only stopped 20
rcaSo ma minute with himself.
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