SUPPOSED CORPSE SLEEPING
AFLOAT IN A RIVER. . New York; July 8. Jamas Madden, a young man of Brooklyn,, was floating.down the North River shortly after midnight tnia morning, enjoying a cool, refreshing sleep, when the crew of the tug Interstate sighted him. Naturally thinking it to toe a dead body, they ..thrust a boat-hook into Madden's body and hauled him aboard. He was apparently unconscious at the time, but Captain Moorehead says Madden came to shortly before the tug.reached the pier, and began to abuse him for having spoiled hisl (Madden's) sleep. His language was so Violent thai he was' arrested.' _ ',' ' In the night court this morning Madden said he had, been riding on a ferry boat and had fallen asleep. He could not remember how he came to be in. the river. ' He said he had had just two drinks 'before boarding the ferry boat.' Magistrate Herrmann fined the prisoner three dollars.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 127, 7 September 1910, Page 3
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153SUPPOSED CORPSE SLEEPING Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 127, 7 September 1910, Page 3
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