The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-10-29
DR.. KNUDSEN FOUND NAKED
ON TOP OF A FREIGHT CAR

The New York World of October IL
says:
DR.. Arthur Sinclair Knudsen, a young
man of fortune, dined on Saturday at
the City Club, spent the late evening
and up to 1870 o'clock yesterday morn
ing at the Harvard Club and then drove
away in a cab.
He was found four hours later, stark
naked, on the roof of a freight car be-
low Yonkers station, on the New York
Central road He was stiff with cold
and unable to give a clear account of
himself. The Yonkers police sent him
to st. Josephs Hospital in that city
He had taken off his clothes under
the Washington Bridge, at the edge of
the Speedway, ten miles from where he
was discovered on the train. There
they We're found in the early morning
by a New York policeman. To get to
the freight car DR. Knudsen mus nar
walked barefoot up the Speedway and
through Dycqman street to Inwood,
have swan the Harlem River, or else
have walked up the steep hill on the
Manhattan side of the Washington
Bridge. crossed the bridge and walked
several hundred yards back to the Cen
trail tracks on the Bronx side. Which
or will not tell
The policemen who found the cloth
ing took it to the West one Hundred
and Fify-second Street Station. 1t was
of good material, and in the black derby
hat We're the initials "a. S. k In the
pockets We're a nickel watch, a check
book on the Fifth Avenue Bank, With
his name, and cablegrams addressed to
'Knudsen, City Club
The police thought the man haG COM
mitted suicide. Sergeant Hildebrand
telephoned a report to Police Headquar-
tiers, and he was put in communica-
tfon with Sergeant MCGOWAN, of Yonk-
ers Headquarters. He told of finding
the man on the car.
The police telephoned to the City
Club and found there DR.. Knudsen's
Harvard classmate, William F. Will
bour a lawyer, of No. 141 Broadway.
He and friends at the Harvard C1''h
sent DR.. Knudsen's clothes to the hos
pital. and Mr. Wilbour went to Yonk-
ers himself to help his friend
To DR.. Cannon at the hospital knud-
sen said after dining al tn Civ Club.
he went out for a walk on Broadway.
suddenly" he continued, "a feeling of
extreme dread and terror came over
me: [ began to walk faster, then broke
I
ed to be afraid of: my only thought
was TO go as swiftly as I could.
Finally I took a cab and drove TO
one Hundred and Fifty-ffth street;
there l took train to High Bridge
Then I took to the road again. L felt
as if nv clothes We're depressing me.
so I took them all off. The last I re-
member is trying to Glib oNar
freight train. When 1 came to myself
II was here.
DR. Cannon said the patient was we'll
nourished and seemingly in good ply
steal health but suffering from some
acute nervous disturbance, which grad
ually lessened. Certain symptoms i'm
pressed the physician that DR.. Knud-
sen was under the influence of some
drug.
Mr. wilbour took DR.. Knudsen away
from the hospital last night The doc
tors say he probably would be all right
AFTER few days rest.
"Knudsen is the son of a wealthy
sugar planters of Hawaii" Mr.. Wilbour
said. His father died recently. Knud-
sen. after graduation from Harva q
studied medicine and took the degree
at the College of Physicians and Sur
geons in this city. He never practised.
however. He spent a great deal of his
time in travel. and passed several
months each year with his family in
Honolulu and San Francisco. He is
tventy-eight years old. and a man of
correct and abstemious habits.
] This experience OF his can not be
ascribed to drink or any drug habit.
an, certain. Since the death of his