The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-24
4 VERY SATISFACTORY FOG.
BY w. b. ALDEN.
Copyright

drive or before anyone could stop me.
IL wasn't very long before / was back
again in the Fins1ury quarter. but il
wasn't pleasant drive, for the woman
kept yelling 90 me out Of the window.
. When I sot 90 Einsbury ] selected good,
flltl Stfsei. ahq ihch GOT down ana tolt
my passenger that she must get ont. or
course she said she wouldn't DO anything
OF The kind. and when she saw that L
meant business, she set up a yell that
promised 10 wake the whole street About
HIty windows went up. and more than
HIty men ANA women put their heads out
.'iiu ielHs- Fre- ana Murder. AT
tle TOP OF their lungs. IL was clear that
iIls sort of thing would never do; SO 1
jumped upon mE perch again and drove
away, feeling more sympathy FOR cab
men than had ever felt before.
IiaNin4 started TO scream the woman
kept 10 uu- Moreover she managed to pull
ine front window opcn and set to work TO
Jan me i'm the ribs with her umbrella.
lhe street filled up with people though
where they came from couldn't imagine,
qua some Of them cried shame" and
cop hllH- Boys seemed to spring up out
OF The ground and followed me. running
'tiohEside The cab, and an the time that
1IedpIul woman kept screaming murder
ana thleNeS, and making other uupleas
"iit personal remarks OF the same general
~ would have been useless for me to
andt4on the cab and run away. for I
would have been caught before I could
nave fairly got off my box. / knew that
"A pouccnlan would turn uD presently,
ana Tor the first time that morning / was
better than driving that yelling demon
ol a woman, and having mob gather
round me The thing went on for per-
Ht1i'7 zen minutes longer. when a police
man arrived, and the woman gave me in
charge Tor attempted murder. and
general assortment Of miscellaneous Of
THAT policeman was an intelligent
man. lie saw at once that the woman
was crazy, and ne was evidently ready
20 dcctpt my version of the affair; but
When ne asked me for my number, and
saw That / hadn't amy, he changed his
miho, IL certainly was q suspicious cir
cumstance. from his point of view. that
/ dldnt nave any number; and after he
nad asked me few qUestions-which
answered in way not to give him much
information, for ! didn't want to explain
thines before the crowd-hc got into the
CAP so as to keen the woman quiet, and
tol4 me 70 drive TO the station-house.
OF course when l saw the officer in
charge / told him the whole story IL aid
sound rather improbable as / couldn't
help feeling while / told IT: and I could
see that he didn't believe a word / said
put was OF the opinion that | was some
caught IN the act of trying to kidnap an
ino1ensive woman. So they locked mo
up What they did with the woman
II sent Off messengers for my landlord
ana my banker, and half a dozen other
people and the upshot of IL all was that
the next morning ! was taken before a
magistrate. who, after examining into
my case, gave me to understand that /
WASH EHuly OF iue great majority OF
the crimes that had been charged against
me. but that as a sort of warning to me
70 never commit any of them he should /
me me. ] paid the line-I needn't mon
ton just how much it was-and went
home in cab that had a real cabman
on the box
I've considerably more sympathy for a /
cabman than / used to have, and if, as a /
class they are men who look on the rest /
of mankind as their natural enemies |
whom they have a perfect right TO i'm, |
pose upon, I don't much wonder at it, /
now that I've been cabman myself and /
know little of the troubles that an |
honest cahman may have to endure"