The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-10-31
A PAINFUL INCIDENT,
A Dazed Bachelor Choke. Nurse.G

A Dazed Bachelor Chokes a Nurse.Girl
and Captures n Baby.
An incident recently occurred in one of
the towns in Seneca County, this State, III
yolving the Postmaster in serious embar-
rassment. AS the Postmaster, though bach
elor. has generally been of exemplary habits,
a pillar in two churches, and one of Con-
gresham Floods most active workers, the
incident has, as the local paper sometimes
remarks of other sad events, least gloom
over the entire community"
Owing to the lack Of a sale in his Office
this Postmaster has been in the habit of
taking his money and postage-stamps home
with him every night In a small satchel.
This satchel he took to his bedroom and
usually placed it under his pillow. But one
night he neglected to put the satchel in its
door as he entered his bedroom. That
same night the nurse-girl employed by
another boaTder in the house found it
necessary to carry the child in her charge to
its mothers room. In passing through the
unlighted hall she mistook the door and
entered the bedroom OF the Postmaster.
The vieilant official instantly awakened
with the belief that there was burglar in
the room, and reached under his pillow for
his satchel. Not finding it, the thought
crossed his mind that the burglar had al
ready secured it, and he bounded out of bed
. Il,
about in the darkness. He was juse getting
his grip on her throat when she Shrieked and
dropped the child, which he, rather by in
voluntary impulse than deliberate intent,
saved from wreck by catching hold of its
clothing. The girl, finding herself released,
ran out Of the room and into her own, where
she locked the door and tainted.
The CHI lid was by this time screaming ter
rife screams aud tue dazed Postmaster was
trying to think whether to drop the soft,
4. -. Il,
out of the window, when its father and
mother entered the room with lighted can
dies. The mother rushed upon the POStmas-
ter crying, Give Inc my baby, and, having
rescued il, left the room. The infurated
father demanded. "What have you been do
ing with my child?" and began to jerk the
Postmaster around in way that might be
called "wiping the floor with him."
1t is probable that the Postmaster was at
that moment nearer 10 insanity than men
often are who escape it, but the rough treat
ment he received saved him. 1t is known
that the mind works rapidly in the presence
Of great danger, and 1t seems that by the
time the Postmaster's legs had whacked
against the bedpost and washstand, had up
set a rocking-chair, smashed mirror aud
sent the hairbrush, perfumery bottles and
collar-boX on the dresslng-case flying about
in disorder, his mind had got back to the
lost satchel which he believed the burglar
had captured. The thought nerved him for
a mighty effort, and grappIing with his now
exhausted assailant lie flung him on his back
in a corner of the loom. Then he yelled
"RObbers!" and began to search for his
satchel. He had just found it and was pre-
pairing to meet another assault from the out
ragged parent when several other male board
ers in the house, who had been aroused by
the disturbance, entered the room and called
hall on the proceedings.
1t required a great deal of heated talk to
explain matters and ii is probable that tn
torly made had not the door OF the nurse
giri's room been broken in and the girl re-
quired to tell how she came to partwith tn e
child. Even then half the people who heard
the story did not understand il, and the
weekly paper published in the town having
consented, through friendship for the Post
master. to refrain from mt ntoUing the affair,
the puolic have been left to draw very erro-
neOuS inferenceS. y. T!mes.