An Injured Man.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1621, 24 April 1875, Page 6 (Supplement)

An Injured Man.

MoitTniEE J. Looms is now one of the most violent of the denunciators of railroad monopolies. Since his last adventure on the cars he hates a railroad worse than an Arapahoe Indian hates a baldheaded Shaker.

Loomis has fits of somnambulism occasionally, and at such times he has an uncontrollable tendency to wander into dangerous places. More than once he ha 3 been surprised, upon waking, to find himself roosbing on the comb of the roof, or hanging headforemost down the well, with one leg around the bucket handle.

He went out to Pittsburg a few days ago, and when he entered the sleeping-car the thought struck him that he might get to prowling about during the night while asleep and walk off the platform into the better world,

So he went to the brakeman and gave him a dollar, with strict instructions that if lie saw him walking around that car in his sleep to seize him and force him back at all hazards. Then Loomis turned in.

About two o'clock Loomis awoke, and as the air of the car seemed stifling, he determined to go out on the platform for a fresh breath or two.

Just as he got to the door that vigilant brakeman saw him, grabbed him, floored him and held him down. When Loomis recovered his breath he indignantly exclaimed: 'You immortal ass! What do you mean ? Lcmme get up, I tell you ; I'm as wide awake as you are!' But that myrmidon of a grasping corporation put another knee on Loomft^ breast and insisted that Loomis was aslee™ and then he called anotherT^akeman, ajP after a terrific struggle, whicli Loomis received bumps and^^»> enough to wake an Egyptian mumr^Rhat. had • been dead for 0,000 years, the ramroad man jammed him into a berth, put a trgnk and eight carpet-bags on him, and then sat on him to hold him down until morning.

The first thing Mr. Loomis asked for when he arrived in Pittsburg was a respectable hospital where they cured the temporarily insaneHe thinks his reason was partially dethroned by his effort to comprehend how that brakeman could have the face to ask him for another dollar because of the trouble Loomis gave him during the night. — Max Adeler.