BOY’S DANGEROUS RIDE
ASLEEP ON EXPRESS ENGINE. When a Pennsylvania railroad train from Atlantic City passed through Hammonton, New Jersey, at a high spee-d one night a few j weeks ago, the motionless form of a man I was seen on the front of the engine. As the train stoped at Broad .Street station, Philadelphia, railroad officials and others were horrified to find a boy of 17 years old lying inert on the front of the locomotive. He wae alive, but asleep, and had made the ride, almost 70 miles, in this dangerous [Xjsition, the train sometimes rushing through the darkness az 70 miles an hour He was Frederick Herbert, of Shawnee, Oklahoma, homeward bound without the formality of paying regular rates. 'lhc Philadelphia police took charge of him.
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Southland Times, Issue 19659, 9 October 1922, Page 5
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