Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1875 — A Ride With a Madman. [ARTICLE]

A Ride With a Madman.

The New York Herald relates the following incident: Mr. William Fouh, of Hoboken, while driving through New Durham, on Sunday evening, was accosted on the road by a sprightly-looking man about thirty years of age, well dressed and of some culture, who declared he was fatigued and sadly in need of a ride. The driver repelled him at first, but the stran£er renewed his application with such oneyed words that Mr. Fouh took him up. The conduct of the lunatic who accompanied Hood in the balloon was gentle compared with that of this stranger. He began by twisting his face into a variety of convolutions; then his eyes glared as if with rage or torture; he stared menacingly at the driver, and made a powerful effort to snatch the reins. Mr. Fouh affected not to notice this much, and drew up the horse. He coaxed his dangerous companion to alight and adjust the bit in the animal’s mouth. The lunatic jumped out and then Fouh plied his whip with fury. The horse flew away, and the driver was blessing his stars, but, on looking behind him, to his horror he saw a man clinging to the vehicle, and leaning over him with a huge knife flashing in his hand. Fouh seized his whip and dealt him a heavy blow, on the head, felling him on the road. The horse still rushed on, and the madman lose and followed closely for some time, when his strength failed him and he was lost sight of. The maniac is probably an escaped lunatic or a person whose insanity is of recent date. California pays a bounty of fifteen cents for squinel scalps, ana California girls borrow shot-guns, buy a dollar’s worth of ammunition mid go out and kill —the hired man. When do teeth unsurp the tongue's prerogative ? When theyare chattering.