New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-05-05

ough and the west would stop IN few
minutes, made one or two triaing pur-
chases at the bookstall and managed
to engage the man who kept the stall
in conversation for some time. The
train came in as hewas still talking to
! the man at the bookstall, and Bolden
quietly took his seat in it, without
having gone through the formality OF
| taking a ticket.
When the train arrived at Westbor-
ough, the young solicitor explained
that he had joined the train at Lam
borne and rendered the fare from that
town. As he expected, themoney was
refused, and the full fare from Lon
don demanded. This Mr.. Boldon
positively refused to pay, and accord
| ingly he was detained till the station
master was sent for.
That official, in all the majesty OF
gold-laced coat and tall hat, soon ar
rived, much annoyed at being disturb
ed at his evening meal.
"What's all this about?" he de-
manded sternly, as he came upon the
scene.
"They want to make me pay the
fare all the way from London, and
I've only come from Lamborne," an
swered Boldon in humble tone.
"Of course you must pay the whole
fare. There's a bylaw on purpose,
made and provided
Mr.. Boldon mournfully shook his
head. "Oh, no, sir' he said meekly,
II really can't do that"
| "You'll have to go to the lookup,
them rejoined the station-master,
roughly. YOU'D best pay up"
| Mr.. Boldon, only shook his head
again and sighed heavily.
| AS the lawyer expected the official
was exasperated by his obstinac y
and encouraged in his high-handed
manner by the meekness with which
he was confronted. None of the rail
way people recognized in the shabbily
dressed, unshaved Individual before
them the spruce gentleman who had
paid poor mans fare few days be-
! fore.
"Bonnor, go for a constable, "
said the statlon-master, with the air
of an infexible Judge awarding term
OF twenty years penal servitude.
"Don't do that; III give you my name
and address, I'm known in the place
THAT is, I'm quite respectable you
know
ooh, I dare say" returned the
station-master, with with true official
superciliousness.
There was an awful pause while the
porter was gone to fetch the constable.
Don't you think, suggested Boldon,
almost timidly-"don't you think it
might be as we'll to telegraph to Lon
don for instructions?"
| The station-master frowned.
'They couldn't complain of you in
that case, at any rate" pursued
Boldon.
The station-master hesitated.
F1'll wait in the waiting-room till
you get an answer" said Boldon, as
he led the way to that cheerful apart
ment.
The official darted a suspicious
glance at his prisoner Still, the advice
was prudent and he acted u ponit. In
half an hour the answer came back.
'The passenger without q ticket must
pay the fare from London, Or be charg-
ed before the magistrates.
ouSC leG ille See Une message you We
got, " said Boldon, when theresult was
announced to him. eff it is as you
say I'll go quietly or else pay"
They showed him the message.
"No, really can t pay all that mon
ey, you know" said Bolden sadly, as
he read the telegram; and accordingly
he was marched off to the police office,
guarded by policeman on the right
and by a constable in the imposing
uniform of the Great Railway Com
pany on the left.
AS it was Saturday night, nothing
could be done that day, and Mr.. Boil
don did not choose to disturb the Sab
bath rest of Mr.. Lionel Vim, his only
available friend, by asking him to bail
him out on Sunday.
On the Monday morning, however,
an early message was sent to Mr..
Winn and he promptly appeared and
bailed out the young lawyer, who was
heartily tired ofhis incarceration. La
ter in the day the case came on before
the magistrates and Mr.. Boldon, at
tended with the landlady of the inn at
Lamborne and one of the shopkeepers
who were able and willing to prove
that he could not possibly have tray
eled from agreater distance than Lam
borne on the preceding Saturday night.
The charge was of course dismissed,
one OF the magistrates jolly old fel-
low, named Bracebridge, remarkine
that Mr.. Boldon. who seemed to be a
respectable solicitor, had been treated
shansefully, and that if he stood in
Mr.. Boldon's place hewould be inclin-
ed to let the Great Railway company
hear of the matter again.
| Next day the Westborough indie
| pendent contained a long account OF
the incredible and really scandalous
outrage to which one of the most
respected members of the legal profes.
sion in our town has been Subjected
and it need hardly be said that, in a
day or two, the course at which the
worthy magistrate had limited was
adopted. Mr.. Boldon brought his &C.
ton against the railway company fol-
false imprisonment and malicious
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