Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1884 — Snored Like William. [ARTICLE]

Snored Like William.

“One of the funniest incidents I ever noticed,” said the sleeping-car conductor, “was a woman looking for her husband. She got on at Fort Wayne late in the night, and said her husband had telegraphed her he would be aboard and she could come to his section. I told her there was no man of that name on my car, but she wouldn't believe it. . About 2 o’clock in the morning I saw ! her get out, with only a shawl around her shoulders, and tip-toe to the other end of the car, where she tried to climb into a berth occupied by a man who was doing a good deal of snoring. She stuck her head in and says, ‘William, is that you? William!’ The man grabbed hold of her, and yelled ‘ Thieves! Conductor! Porter! ’ Of course he roused everybody in the car, and heads were popped out of all the berths. There was the poor woman in her night-dress, and the man in the berth holding tight to her, and yelling at the top of his voice. I interfered as quick as I could and told the man I guessed if he would calm himself he would find his wife instead of a thief. “ * It’s a lie’ he shouted, ‘my wife is in San Francisco.’ “‘Madam,’ I says, ‘you Jiave undoubtedly made a bad mistake. What made you think that man was your husband?* “She was just ready to cry, but she managed to say: ‘I—I didn’t think there was another man living that oould shore like my William.’” —Chicago Herald.