New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-16
MAN NUDE ON CAR TOP.
CLOTHES TEN NILES OFF.
Physician Says His apparel Hin
dered His Flight from Fear.


man about thirty years old. identified as
Or. Arthur Sinclair KRudsen, Harvard gradu-
ate. who stays at the City Club, was found
/ naked on top OF freight car on the tracks of
the New-Yorll Central and Hudson River Rail
! road al Yonkers about o'clock yesterday morn
! ing The man was dazed from exposure, and
apparently suffering from drugs, though
what allied him has not yet been fully de-
| ternlined. A freight conductor making his
| rounds of The cars happened to look UP ct this
| particular car, and saw the nude man crouch
| ing, brea thing heavily and shivering
The conductor was stunned for a moment, but
! jumped quickly into the car and shook the man
! vigorously. Seeing that he WAS unconscious, the
| conductor hurried to the police station and re-
turned with Patrolman Miller Miller sum
moned an ambulance and had the young man
taken TO St Josephs Hospital.
About two hours after Knudsen was found, Pa
trolman Diehi, of the West 152d-st station.
found on the grass under the Washington Bridge.
| between the Speedway and the Harlem River a
| complete suit of clothes, the marks on which
| led to the Identification of the man in the hos
pitai.
Several OF his friends completed the identifi-
cation to the satisfaction of the Yonkers police
and the mana genent OF the hospital and then
quietly took him away from the institution He
is in a private sanatorium. the location Of
which his friend. William F. Wilbur. a lawyer,
of No, 141 Broadway. would not divuige-
Dr. Knudsen revived quickly unde- the treat
ment a. ST. Joseph's. ard IN a few moments sat
up in bed and told. rather disconcectedly, his
ramblings about town, but could not recall any
thing from the time he divested himself of every
piece of clothing until he was found in the
freight car ten miles from the spot where the
clothing found
he DhV Of
Josephs. said he thought the young physician
was suffering from some drug and his opinion
was upheld by the Yonkers police surgeon. The
latter says he must have taken chloral From
the disconnected sentences of his story told in
the hospital, it appears that DR.. Knudsen had
dined with some friends at the City Club Sat
urday night leaving there shortly after mid
night
While walking up Broadway a feeling of ex-
tren,e fear overlook him. he says. He walked
more rapidly. then broke into a run, his only
thought being to quicken his pace.
Finding that this did not satisfy his feelings.
he took a cab and rode to 155th-st where. he
says. he took a train for Highbridge. There
he took to the road again, running like mad
man. His clothing annoyed him and held him
back he thought. He recalled tearing off his
clothes and starting to climb over a freight
train From that his mind is a blank.
It is nearly ten miles from the point the
Speedway where the clothes were found to the
place where DR. Knudsen was discovered. 1t is
three miles to the nearest accessible freight line
of the New-York Central. the shortest route be-
ing up the Speedway and through Dykeman-st
to the Inwood station-that is. unless DR., Knud-
sen swan the Harlem after his clothes were
placed on the west bank and reached the tracks
on the Bronx side.
The police have all sorts of theories to account
for Dr. Knudsens strange experience and for ms
separation by ten miles from his clothes The
first idea of Patroman Diehl when he found the
clothes was that some one had committed SUI
eide by jumping into the river.
DiehI took the clothes to his station and re-
norted his find to Sergeant Hildebrand, who was
at the desk The sergeant reported his find TO
Police Headquarters. Hardly had the sergeant
hung III, the telephone when the bell rang. Ser
gesnt MCGOWAN, the night man in the Yonkers
Police Headquarters, was on the wire.
You found some clothes on the Speedway this
,norning?" the Yonkers sergeant asked Sergeant
Hildebrand
YES and we want to ind the man who goes
with them"
We'll. we've got your man up here"
Did he float up there so soon?' asked Ser
peant HfIdebrand who supposed the owner of
the clothes had jumped into the river
Float? Did you say float"
YES. float"
WHY no; he was found naked top of
freight car on The tracks at the Yonkers-New-
York line
II was said at the City Club yesterday after
moon that DR. Knudsen was there Saturday
,igbt untiI 10 o'clock. and was in a cheerful
rooo5 He had been living there about month.
Though not member, he obtained the priv
ileees of the club through his membership IN the
seawanhaka Yacht Club, with which the City