Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-03-20
A CITY EXPERIENCE.
ClRCUMSTANTlAL EVIDENCE AGAINST
A YOUNG MAN.

Person May at Times BE Placed in a
Dangerous Situation with Regard to
the Lava Woman's Predicament.
Circumstantial evidence is regarded. I
know, by courts as very often the strongest
possible proof, yeC how often in human ex-
perlence has it been shown that circum-
sO'ihJlal evidence was a cruelty beyond de-
scriptionl | have told the story before.
out as 1t is pertinent let me give it in brief
again. Some years ago, in Brooklyn at a
boarding house table young invalid from
Minneapolis discussed with great earnest
ness with his fellow boarders in general,
but more especially with a bright New
england girl then a school teacher in the
CITY OF Churches the insanity of Hamlet.
IL was bright December day and either
Booth or Davenport think the form
er-was playing Hamlet" in Booths
theater in this city. Half in fun and half
In earnest the young man suggested that
ne and the young lady should attend the
performance that night and renew the dis
cussion later on.
They did so.
At the end Of the second act, being trou
bled with asthma, the young man excused
himself saying it would be necessary for
nm to take the air and that he might not
return TO his seat until the close Of the fol-
lowing act. To his surprise when he
reached the front door the sky was filled
with snow, brisk breeze was rapidly drift
ing II and the pavemcnts were covered To-
the depth Of at least an inch. lie muGIed
himself up and trOtted literally toward
broadway. Then turning, he walked
briskly back toward the theater. While
SO proceeding a man rushed rapidly past
him toward Sixth avenue with the fleet
ness OF a deer. As he did so he dropped
something which shone in the snow.
The young man picked it up.
10 was a watch and broken chain. As
well as he could he called after the rapidly .
retreating individual, and, failing to make f.
him hear, endeavored to catch him. I'm .
conscious Of a group Of men behind him. /
he ran rs quickly as possible until he
reached the corner Of Sixth avenue and .
Twenty-third street, where to his amaze
ment, as a police officer grasped him. a
crowd from behind bounced upon him.
shouting: I'VE have got him! Here heiso' .
One Of them remarking as he snatched the
watch from his hands, by heavens, he has
got it here"
THE NORMAL SEQUENCE
The young man was bcwildered. amazed.
dumfounded
Hurriedly he was taken 20 the station
house, where he was charged with feloni-
Gus assault at the corner Of Fifth avenue
and Twenty street and with highway
robbery.
How so2
Some one and the crowd believed IL to
be he, had grabbed an old gentleman about
the throat, dealt him tremendous blow
behind the ears with a blunt instrument,
roughly grabbed his watch aud with VIC
lence broke the chain ere ne rushed away.
OF course you see il was the man who had
run on past our friend. OF this he knew
nothing. All he could say was that a man
had dropped his watch IN the snow and he
picked it up He was laughed at. lie
was thrown into cell In the morning he
was taken, in serious physical distress and
mental discontinue before "A fat. sleepy
Judge, and sent to the Tombs TO await the
action Of the grand jury.
And his friend, the young LADY,
Well, perhaps you can imagine her con.
ditiOn. She waited patiently during the
third act, impatiently during the remain
der OF the play wondering at the absence
OF her escort. At last, the curtain down.
she walked slowly toward the door, where
she was encountered with the usual gang
Of cab shouters and street loafers. more
serious even in their insulting attentions
than the tremendous storm which then
hurtled through the air She hadn't a
dollar in her pocket she was unfamiliar
with New York ,
What should she do? ,
The night Waterman in a very few mo
ments told her that she must step outside,
as the theater must be closed A cabman {
asked her wh1re she wanted to 20. She s
70 L d IA. L.. 4
that the ferryboats stopped running at u, '
and recommended that she should drive to /
the United States hotel 7
A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. s
So she said she would like to, explained s
the absence Of her escort as well as she a
could, and asked the man if he would trust L
her until the following morning, when she i
could send to her friends or go TO her home 4
in Brooklyn. He laughingly replied that d
that would make very little difference y
jumped on the box and started, as she be /
lieved, for the United States hotel. on Full -
ton street, near the ferry.
During the long, long drive, with the
storm beating outside and her heart tu-
multuously moving inside, the poor girl v
was nearly distraught. Something, wom- o
lnly intuition, told her all was not right, {
and as she looked out, seeing nothing, she n
was convinced that they were beyond the c
line Of residence. Her repeated blows upon j
he window made no impression upon the &
lriver or his companion. d
Desperate, frightened, she burst open the il
ioOr and sprang as well as she could into h
he snow, tripped and fell in front Of gin D
mill on the boulevard, as n door opened g
md the light from the interior revealed q
ier disheveled, in tears 10 a group Of half
drunken meuymakers who emerged at Ct
hat moment She was taken into the OF
Dom, revived, given something to drink, fl
which she at first hesitated to take, and &c
lfter much urging accepted the hospitali- b
y Of billiard room until the following 81
morning, when the kind hearted wife Of 81
he proprietor, who was his own bartender, cl
nabled her to return a half crazed, en- ri
irely demoralized woman to her Brook