The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-11

The Victim Of Turkish Bath Lays the Facts
Before the Public.

Before the Public.
Detroit Free Press.
went into Mr.. Towells's establishment with
mind quiet and at peace with all men. 1t is
not true, as Mr.. Towels stated to a reporter.
that went IN there bent on having fuss and
threatening to clean out the establishment. /
knew too well that nothing can be cleaned at q
T. E establishment I took my place in the
and in due time the South Sea islander,
| IN his native costume, came In with
glass of ice-water, most of
which he spilled on my perspiring frame Here
again towels Is In error OF else the reporter
took down his statement incorrectly. / di6 not
attempt to brain the attendant with chair
That episode occurred later In the shatnpQoing-
| room. In the hot-room the attendant had es-
capped, and found myself locked In before had
disentangled myself from the sheet AND seized
the chair. l admit breaking the chair. and have
paid its value into court but 1t was broken
against the door, and not on the attendant. who
| was one OF the most nimble fellows / ever saw
Mr.. Towels will find it q different thing testi-
flying In court on oath to giving garbled Version
of an affair to the inaccurate reporter Of an ire
sponSible newspaper
In the interview I refer to, Towels says
kept up such a TRADE of abuse at the operator
who was shampooing me that Detroit alderman
who was in the cooling room Had to get up and
leave.
To that I have just two things to say. First,
the operator jabbed the customary half pound
of soap In my mouth the first time / opened it,
and. second that the alderman left when he
found he could only get coffee, no beer being
kept on the premises.
Now as to the feeling Of the attendant. To
show you the utter recklesshess of that man
Towels, may say that his ninlon was lying in
sensible under the shampooipg-table when Tow
els hearing the row, came down. As the man
has not yet recovered CONSCIOUSNESS at the hos.
pital, would like to know how Towels is in a
position to state what occurreda Here is how it
happened:
/ said to Scrubbs I've got bad cold. You
| must be careful about cooling me down.
'All right" says Scrubbs.
He turned on the spray and yelled.
'Too hotP asked Scrubs.
'Hotp l shrieked. ITS boiling. Great Scottl
don't you see you've scalded nae. don't want
to leave this place skeleton for an anatomy
museum"
ssPll Ak that in minute" said Scrubbs.
He twisted brass arrangement and turned
he hose on me again. The drops struck me like
pellets of ice Before froze solid spfang at
him. thrust nay two hands into his hair, and
| that's how the marble table came to be broken.
There was no chair in the room.
Then Towels came gallopiDg down. you've
killed Scrubbs!' he shouted.
1 didn't deny it I thought I had at that
time; SO said: ''Ive done it quickly and merci.
fully, Look at my shattered frame. first boiled
and then frozen"
"Poohl" he cried. ga little cold water doesn't
hurt anybody"
"Doesn't it?"
''No it doesn't"
swell, see if it doesn't and saying this
grasped him by the collar and leaped With him
into the plunsing bath. which was ice cold and
six feet deep.
He says l spoiled his $50 suit of clothes. He
never had such suit in his life. IL was 81
| ready made, and heard it rip as gRasped him.
Besides, it never fitted him better than when his
two hired men pulled him out
He further claimed thai I tried to hold him
under water Well, his own hired men are to
blame for that. They shouted: LET him up,
let him up! He's the proprietor. Up to the mo-
ment knew he was the proprietor honestly
tried to save him.
1t is just as well TO have the truth about these
little matters, and [ now confidently leave my
case in the hands of an unprejudiced people.