The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-07
MANN MRS. TALLER SCARRIACE
OPENS the DOOR AND LEAPS IN,
STARTLING HER 70 SCREAMS.
Thought TO he q FOOtpad Bold. but was Only
Charles n. Jackson. Newark Lawyer.
Reput cd FrOlicsomr- Locked IN. Apoi.
osizing. charged With Being Drunk.

Mrs Edward ~ Taller OF II Washingto ton
Square North had an experience last even
ing with a man who when he jumped into
her brougham was thought to he bold
foot pad, but who turned out TO be merely
emboldened by whiskey
Mrs Taller was coming down Fifth ave-
nue., Her driver, Charles Brutton. had to
stop az Eighth street 10 let two electric cars
pass. He had just started up his horses
again when Young and swell-dressed man
ran ont IN front of the vehicle and raised
both hands, in one Of which he held cane.
The driver thought the man was warning
Of some danger and with some effort refined
up his restless horses and side-stepped
them to the right The M :. ran around
TO the left Of the brougham, swung the door
open and Jumped in, pulling the door shut
after him
Mrs. Taller was sitting on the right side
of the carriage. She screamed when the
intruder entered. but became calmer in a
moment The man took a place on the
seat and leaned back nonchalantly
Mrs Taier's driver was much more
disturbed than she was. He saw the man
getting IN and yelled:
Here. get out Of that! There's some
body in there.,"
The man paH no attention to him. The
driver. not daring 10 leave his seat for fear
his horses would run away. then shouted
for Dugan, the special policeman at the
Brevoort House cabstand
Dugan heard the shout and ran up Be-
fore he got there Mrs Taller, at moment
when her driver had his horses still. opened
the door on the left side Of the carriage
and got out. Dugan looked In the carriage
and saw the man inside very much at his
ease
Come on, of that shouted Dusan.
The man merely smiled and sank down
in his seat a little more. BY tina, time
Policeman Mendelsohn had come up The
unwelcome fare saw the brass buttons and
descended in hurry.
Mrs. Taller had meanwhile started to
walk home to escape from the crowd that
had gathered around. She was finally
persuaded 10 60 home in the brougham
From there she2sent her driver around TO
the Mercer street police station TO find
out who the man was and what he had
meant. The coachnan found the man be-
fore Sergt. Townsend in the station.
He said he was Charles II jackson, IS
years old, lawyer Of Newark. Cards bear
ing the name Charles Huntin gton jackson
were found in his pocket. When he was
told all he had done he made profuse apolog.
les.
Il thought the carriage was public con-
veyance.' he said. and stopped II. The
driver slowed W and / naturally got D. .
! Wouldn't willingly have disturbed any
woman, much less a very respectable elderly
lady. for all the world"
In the opinion OF the policeman and
Sergt Townsend the man was intoxicated,
and as Mrs Taller, through her coachman
declined to make any complaint against
him he was held on the charge Of being
drunk. The prisoner limped slightly
The only Charles II. jackson who is
a Newark lawyer liz the son Of r Wolcott
Jackson, former superintendent Of the
New Jersey division Of the Pennsylvania
Railroad. a wealthy and prominent resi-
dent Of Newark. Another son Philip ",
is prominently connected with the United
Electric Light and Power Company Young
Charles II or "Chas," as he is called, is well
known in Newark AZ a frollcsome youth
He limps too