The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-04
CAMPERS STARTLED.
Good Templars Dis
turbed By a Mystic
rious Colored Man.
THE POLICE ARE AFTER HIM.
A Deaf and Dumb Oarsman
Mystifes a Reporter
and Boatmen.
THE POLICE ARE AFTER HIM.

There is considerable excitement
among the women at Natural History
park, owing to the actions of mys-
FERROUS colored man. who was prowl-
ing about the place late Wednesday
night He entered the apartment OF
Mrs. Jacobson, one of the campers al
the park, but was scared off He made
a second attempt. and this time the
screams of the woman aroused the
camp and the nocturnal visitor made
tracks. He was pursued by some of the
Good Tsmplars, but managed to make
good IT'S escape. The police We're noti-
ned end the patrolmen have good de-
scripti0n, with instructions to round up
the fellow If possible.
Today the incident was thoroughly
discussed at the camp, and the women
are naturally nervous, although the
chances. Of a renewal of the visit are
very remote. Mrs. jacobson could iden-
tify the man If brought before her, and
the police are making every exertion
70 capture him.
When Mrs, Jaeobson's screams
Drought the attention of the camp to
the scene, and the man hunt began,
Ohicer Millett, who does duty at the
lake, was informed of the facts in the
case. He called up police headquarters
and Lieut.. johnson sent out the alarm.
Just what were the intentions of the
man are not known. He made no at
tempt at committing a crime, so Mrs.
jacobson says. That his purpose was
burglary, however, is secuted, for the
campers are not in the habit of leav-
lny articles of value around hose.
# pTas quiet at the lake yesterday.
The crowd that usually throngs the
shore was at the ball game, but there
We're q goodly number of people, mostly
women and children, at Lincoln park,
Before the ball game there was large
number of sports at the Waehusetts,
and They watched Ned Ten Eyek and
Charlie Lewis on the water.
In speaking with The Spy reporter
about the Englishman who was at the
regatta Tuesday. and who complained
/. In characteristic speech of the man
ner In which Ten Eyck treated him,
< Med said that when the Britisher APP
preached him he was busy helping
Charlie Lewis out with his shell.
The man came up to me-" said Ned,
and inquired If l knew of the Thames
Rowing Club. He didn't introduce
himself or make any further remark.
replied offhand that 1 knew as much
about the Thames Club as 1 wished,
ana passed or.
Ned laughed when the reporter told
him that the Englishman said he in
tended reporting the incident to the
Thames Club as an evidence of ungen-
tlemanly rebuff
II guess that he isn't a big card
said Ned. "At any rate, am not
afraid of the Thames fellows. This
man may have been some fellow who
was privileged to hang around the Lon
don clubhouse, and is now out here
making bluff at being chummy with
the prince"
It was just the kind of a day for a
row, and a number of pleasure boats
and canoes were out. The funniest
thing seen at the lake in some time
happened off Allie Coburn's float A
deaf and dumb man had hired boat
and after rowing out to the middle of
tie lake drew in the oars and sat for a
time with his face in his hands.
Then he sat erect and began to make
his fingers move in lively fashion in
front Of him. The Spy reporter, Deb
Bsmis and George Henderson were sit
ting on the boathouse wharf. Their
Attention was directed to the deaf and
dumb man in the boat.
s'That fellow has chimes in his bel
fry, all right" said Deb Bemis, as he
accepted a good cigar from The Spy
man.
IA clear case of a muezzin in his nil
naret," said George Henderson. 1.-THE
chap is clean nutty, or I'm an Afghan"
AT this juneture a man came along
whom the reporter recognized as New
York printer, who stopped Off on the
way to Boston to see Parlky Jennings
and the boys.
THAT chap is all right" he said. "He
is simply absent minded and not a bit
nj 10 ie foll ~
self. and, say, he is giving himself a
great raking over the Goals. under
stand something about this deaf and
dumb lingo 1t seems he belongs to a
deaf and dumb poker club and lost his
money as result of sitting In last
night The silent boys like the game
as well as those having the use of their
ton is going on something after this
fashion, You are nice fellow, you
are. Think you can play poker, don't
yous o. yes, you are dandy at the
game. BY the great sacred frog of
Egypt, you are, in the words of the i'm
mortal Shakspere, egregiously an ass
What viii your wife say when she
finds out that your week pay has van
ished? What will she say when she
knows that your folly furnished the
means for another woman to get new
dress? o. what will Eliza say, what
Will eliza say?"
Then be took a spin around the lake
and came back. 1t was feared that he
might Jump off and drown himself. but
be didn't. His last quarter was ex-
pended IN paying for the boat ride.
Then he went home to face Eliza and
the music f-e
SWEDISH NOTES.