The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-18
PART I.

read an account of this Singu-
lar experience of one julius Water
bury, who, having attempted to free
stray balloon, which had become en-
tangled with the railing upon the top
of the house where he was lodged, was
run away with by it, and set down upon
the roof of a castle, several miles dis
tant. AT the moment when he alighted,
according to the same account GER
tain August Won Dunkelheim, of Mu-
mich, who happened to be standing
upon the roof Of this same castle,sprang
into the balloon and sailed away, and
was arrested, several hours later,on the
charge of having stolen the balloon, as
he was climbing down from a tree upon
which it had Caught-this tree standing
in the neighborhood of DuUselburg,
near Munich, and being distant great
many leagues from the aforesaid castle.
August Won Dunkelheim is referred to
in the above account as being the great
est liar in all Europe He may have
been so. up to the period when julius
Waterbury wrote this narrative. After
reading the narrative, it seemed to me
that we must come to the conclusion
that there are others.
Now, the facts are that Won Dunkel-
helm was not the man who was arrest
ed while climbing down from tree In
the neighborhoOd of Dusseiberg. Tht
reason why l know this, is-that my
self was the man who was arrested;
and | now propose to give a succinct
and truthful account of the matter; as
we'll as of certain other more impor-
tant things which happened afterward.
l am an American, and my name is
.,f r.at.Ns
good family, and better still, / am pos
sessed of a fair education. At the death
of my parents. which happened short
ly after l had left my studies, l inner
tied some twenty-five thousand dol
lars, and, upon the revenue of this
moderate fortune, l contrved to live
quite comfortably until last spring.
At that time / set out upon a tour of
Europe; which tour. or perigrination,
has been productive of the most unfor-
seen and momentous consequences.
on the 10th of last August, l being
then at Krayburg, a small and ancient
town in the very northern part of the
kingdom of Lusatia, that part which
thrusts itself wedgeshaped between
the German principality of Andel
Schwartzburg and the kingdom of Ba-
L
ers in Boston that a certain manu-
featuring concern, in which l was
interested, had failed, and tina,
my whole fortune had taken to Itself
wings, and had vanished. They also
informed me, incidentally, that my let.
ter of credit was withdrawn and can
celed. l now found myself in an OBJ
scure and unfrequented part of Europe
without friends, and with just foul
hundred and fifty marks in my pocket
"a sum equivalent to about 500 o,
American money.
The only thing for me to do was tC
return home. If l was to get there a
all, l must go at once, and economiZt
in every way possible; otherwise, Wher
/ arrived at Hamburg, from which por
l decided to sail, l would not haV,
money enough left to pay my passage
In the first place 1 came to the conclu
sion that it would be better to walk a.
much of the way as possible. l there
fore had my luggage sent on ahead t
Hamburg, and set out on foot, brigh
and early on the morning of the 18th
meaning to cross the Bavarian frontier
three or four miles to the north o
Krayburg, and to push on from there