The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-04-08

CIT ldiSe security. a passenger, Idk1nS
out cigarette case, asked the only
two other passengers besides Coleman
for permission to smoke. 1t was grant
ed, and Coleman also assented AL.
were becoming drowsy when they were
startled by crash of window pane,
Coleman, having suddenly become sus.
picious that the fumes of the cigarette
the man was smoking was drugged.
feeling himself coming under its infiu.
ence, had swung his hand bag against
the glass. A current of air at once re.
stored those affected, but no one seem,
ed to understand why Coleman was IN
such hurry for air as to smash win.
dow. A few minutes later the train
stopped at a station, and the smoker
got out
On approaching Rotterdam Coleman
nerved himself for the browning attack
Of his journey. Undoubtedly some one
person had planted these traps in his
way and had been informed of their
failure. He would therefore instruct
his hirelings to prevent at all hazards
the passage of the traveller across the
channel. The main danger would be
in going from the railway station to
the boat On alighting at the former
Coleman, carrying his bag in one hand
and cane he had brought from st.
Petersburg In the other, entered the
street 1t was growing dark, and he
fancied he might skulk through some
of the narrow streets without being OBJ
served.
He was passing through one Of the
narrowest. dimmest streets of Rotter
dam when he saw a man ahead of
him emerge from a passageway and
look about him. Realizing that he
would probably be taken In front and
rear at the same time, Coleman glanc
ed back and saw another man coming
toward him. Hurrying forward, when
he reached the man in front the fellow
stood directly in his way and asked
him in French the time Coleman held
his bag and his cane In his left hand
Selling the handle of his cane with
his right, he pulled it from the other
part, revealing blade nearly two feet
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head of the man who blocked his way.
The fellow ducked and ran like deer
behind him. Coleman took advantage
OF his absence to dodge into the pas
sageway from which his adversary had
emerged and ran for an open street.
Seeing an empty cab standing by the
curb, he stepped in, told the coachman
to drive him to the boat and was
rolled away.
He was now near the water and had
only to pass from land to sea. When
he alighted from the cab he saw a
man standing with paper In his hand
beside the gangway. On reaching the
shore end of the gangway the man
stepped in his way and began to read
something to him. Coleman, under
standing this to be process of law
to delay him and noticing that the
man was standing very near the edge
Of the dock, pretending to believe he
was in danger of being left rushed to-
ward the gangway and over it, knock
ing the process server into the water.
A policeman stood ready to follow the
reading with an arrest, but the atten-.
ton of every one was diverted to the
man sputtering in the water Cole
man, taking advantage of the digres-
sion, ran aboard the boat and, going
down into the hold instead of up into
the cabin. found convenient Granny
in which to hide.
The boat did not leave for two hours.
but either the hunters for the message
bearer gave up the chase or could not
find their man. As soon as the boat
had left the dock Coleman went into
a stateroom, locked the door and.
throwing himself on berth, went to
sleep.
He did not awaken till the boat
touched the English coast. Then, rous-
ing himself, he went ashore, took
train and in few hours was In Lon
don.
Here the narrative which was writ
ten by Coleman to his wife in 1885,
and from which this story has been
taken ends. There Is no mention OF
the presentation of the information be
bore to the English government, but
the fact remains that Napoleon III
failed signally to induce England tc
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