Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-08-06
A Curious Freak i'm n Boy. and Won.
dcrfus Escape from Instant Death.

To the Editor of Tue Evening STAR.
A few days since a mother and her little boy.
some IL years OF ag', were on their way from
washington to HarperS Ferry via the Baltimore
and OAio railroad. The youth Is very fond OF rail-
reading, and an engine has sort OF bewilderlng
fascination for him. at point on the road where
another line connects boy disregarding his fond
parents injunction not to put MS head out of the
win low. had that member protrudng over the
track nelrly up to his arm-pits nteut!y gazing at
the motion or the driving wheels. All OF q SUI 1den
a Screechlng whistle from the engine on the other
track caused him TO look up, and he thought the
incoming train was going to crash into the car he
was n Without waiting to advise his mother of
the pending calamity, or even to SO much as say
Good by! Look out for YOURSELF" and although
tn train was going at full speed, he rushed past
her, out on 10 the platform, and before any one
could 1nterpose threw himself of. The mother,
nearly craZnd as can easily be imagined, closely
followed her child, throwing away ner satchel.
containing all the money she had, together with
return railroad tickets and other vilu ,bles, and
would have Hung herself after her darling had not
strong arm, caught her and by main strength
forced her into the car, when She tainted dead
away. In the meantime the train had been
stopped and run back to where 1t was expected
the mangted and dead body OF the boy would be
found. But strange to say he stood waiting for
brulse from his fearful leap. He was taken on
board, the train moved on, the mother was soon
ables were lost. twill probably be a valuable
lesson to boys II not to mothers and the lesson is
tnlS: Mothers, when travelling by rail, look out
for your boys Boys, keep your heads inside the
cars When travelling, and don't lump off the train
when IL Is In MOTION" A FRIEND.
How Mr.. KRUsEN LOST HIS MoNEY-H. 8. Kru-
sen, OF Sandy Spring, Md, went into restaurant
on pennsylvania avenue, last Wednesday night,
and afterwards complained to the police that he
had lost his pOckrtbOOk containing over 500 A
young woman named MasgieRObertS was arrested,
charged with the larceny Of the pocketbook
kruSen came to the city this morning to prosecute
har ~
publication in a Baltimore paper that he had been
ROBBED by woman whom he had taken to res
taurant had caused considerable excitement in
his ne1ghbOrhOOd, where he Is well known. He
denied that he had gone there With any woman.
and said he did not know how his money was lost
He was told by waiter tn 1t this woman had been
seen hurrying away from the restaurant. Kruspn
said he would not go to the Police Court, as he
could not swear that any one stole his pocket
book.
A MANS NAN FOR A THAT-Frank Thomp-
son, a secondhand furniture dealer, on the ave
nue., near 10th street, was before the Police Court
this morning, charged with assaulting a Grip lied
auctloneer named Eugene Moore. The testimony
showed that the parties do business In adjoining
houses. ana had a dispute about the use OF the
SlieWalk,Wh Thompson made an effort to strike
Moore. M0ore's legs are defOrmed, and he has TO
use an tnvalits chair. Thompson asked one OF his
don't know what you call it," Uneaning Moore)
" You Will refer to the complainant as man and
not as .t," Said Judge Mills. 1t makes no In liter
what his physical. moral, or Intellectual condition
is, he Is entitled to as much respect as the best
formed AMI most intellectu II man in the house,
fine OF s. was imposed In the charge OF assault,
0Dd All appeal was noted.