Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1911 — NUDE MAN HIDES IN A TREE [ARTICLE]

NUDE MAN HIDES IN A TREE

Pennsylvanian I* Stripped of Every Stitch of Clothing by Tramp* and Assailed by Bee*. Philadelphia.-—Accosted by tramp* in a email strip < woods in Germantown. Thoma* Jone* of Frankford was robbed of every particle of clothing he wore and left In the wood* by the vagrant*, who escaped. Jone*, not knowing any of the neighbors and living at a distance from the scene of the robbery, climbed into a tree to wait for some chaac* passer-by. He remained in th* tree all day, suffering greatly from cold, fatigue and and hunger, besides being tortured by a swarm of bee* which had built a hiv* In a dead limb. After dark Jones descended from hl* perch /ind coverings hims*lf a* best he could with weed* went to • neighboring truck farm, where h* obtained cloth** and food.