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Srson's Tells Story of the
Professional Accident
Grafter
ng tho city of Chicago is such
Ksy graft that your gonulno faker
Cj' regard it as a rncro preparatory
rt for tho much raoro hazardous
i honco moro fascinating art of
ig" th.o railways. Tho groat
iBmlier of tho roads that run into and
St Chicago, and tho (until lately)
f consolidation in tho street car
. havo offered unboundod oppor
ttiity for tho display of tho faker's
jfjfcBo mucb havo tbn roaJa suffered,
gfitct, that tho claim agents of many
v combihod to form a protective
ftl-il.- 1 .1-1 4. 1-.U il.
nation, inienuuu tu lusjmu w
i terror in fakers that the Bank
ers' Protectivo Association inspires in
thieve;.
Ono .Tonnlo ftccmnn, then eighteen
yenrs of age nncl describing herself ns
a tailorcss, on January 0, 1893, jnado
a claim upon tho Chicago City Railway
Company upon tho ground that sho had
boon badly injured in n collision bo
twoon two of its cablo cars. Sho
claimed to bo paralyzed from tho
thighs downward. Her physician was
a colored man practicing in Chicago.
Tho company sent its examining sur
geon to call upon her. Ho believed tho
girl was shamming, although tho symp
toms wero so cloverly simulated that
it was apparently a case of real par
alysis. Believing that it would bo
chcapor to settlo than to go to law tho
company paid tho girl $500,
On October 5, 1893, Jennie Frcoman,
again describing herself as a tailoross,
mado a claim upon tho Manhattan Ele
vated Railroad in Now York to tho
effect that buo had beon injurod by
falling against a car door of a Second
Avonuo train as it swung around tho
curvo at Twenty-third street. Sho
said that sho bad been accompanied
by her sister, Fannie Freeman, at tho
tirno of tho accident, and sho accepted
$100 in settlement of the case.
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Stuck Fins in tho Girl's Foot.
On April 20, 189 1, Jonnlo Frfcomnu,
of 75 Dover stroot, Boston, Massachu
setts, claimed to havo beon injurod by
slipping on n banana pool on a West
End Stroot Railway Company's car in
Boston. Dr. R. P, Hubbard, of 74
Boylston streot, oxnmlncd her for tho
company and found hor in an nppar
ontly paralyzed condition.
As a result of tho doctor's report
tho West End Railway Company paid
her $325.
On tho 10th of May, 1894, .Tennio
Freeman mado a claim on tho Boston
& Mnino Railroad Company for al
leged injuries rccoivod whilo getting
out of ono of tho company's cars. Sho
said sho had stopped upon a banana
peol, which sho produced, in ovidencc.
Sho acceptod $125 in settlement of this
case. ,
On Juno l!8, 1894, Jonnlo Freeman
claimed to havo been injured wliilo
boarding a train of tho Illinois Con
tral Railroad Company by stepping
upon a banana pool, which threw her
backward against a seat. Sho alleged
total insensibility of tho lower part of
her body, practically amounting to
paralysis. Dr. S. E. Owons, for the
company, mado overy possible, test,
evon sticking pins into her legs, but sho
appeared totally insensible to pain. So
tho company sottlcd with her for $200.
Samo dirt Under Another Name.
On Juno 0, 1894, ono Elsie Bcldon,
of 75 Dover stroct, Boston, claimed to
havo beeu injured on a train of tbo New
York, Now Hnven & Hartford Rail
road by stopping upon a banana pool
just after tho train arrived in Boston.
Now it so happenod that Dr. R. P.
Hubbard who had, .reported upon Fan
nie Freeman, of 7JJ Dover street, for
tho West End Railway Compuny, was
also oxamining physician for the Now
York, Now Haven & Hartford Rail
road. What was his surprise, there
fore, when ho called upon Elsie Beldcn
at 77 Dover street, to find Fannlo
Freoman lying in the samo bed and
proclaiming tho samo symptoms as
upon his former visit.
'I called at 75 Dover street," said
Dr. nubbard. "I found, tho same pcr
sons, namely Fannio Freeman and her
mother. Fannio was in tbo same front
Bido room, in the samo bed, and the
woman who let mo in on my former
visit, and who said her name was Free
man, let me in this time, also; but
this timo sho said her nnmo wns Bel
don. Sho is a lnrgo womnn of dark
complexion. Fannio wonrs diamond
oardrops nnd it lnrgo murquiso ring.
They both nppoarod not to recognizo
mo nnd I plnyod tho snmo gamo with
them., Fannio complained of tho samo
identical symptoms; said sho had
never had an accident provious to this
one; had novcr boon confined to' hor
bod sinco childhood:, had novcr had n.
doctor in her lifo; and hor mothor cor
roborntod hor statement. Whon I got
through her mother said to me: 'Doc
tor, my physician says Elslo has par
alysis. Do you think sho hast' I
said 'No, I do not,' Sho also nskod mo
if it (paralysis) wno a sorious trouble.
I told hor it was. I said, 'If you will
go over to tho Providonco Depot to
morrow nfternoon, Mr. Maxwell will
sottlo with you.' I mot tho mothor
with Mr. Maxwell next day, wheu sho
explainod hor daughter's stago namo
was Elsie Boldon, sho boing an elocu
tionist. I then said, 'And you chnngo
your namo overy timo sho ddes horsf
Now I want to givo you n plcco of ad
vice and that is not to try this gamo
on in Boston again, as I havo notiUed
overy largo corporation , in Boston
about you."
Evidently tho family took tho hint,
for in September thoy wero back in
Chicago, when Jennio attempted to
mako tho West Chicago Stroot Railway
pay another paralysis comody, but
without success. That wns on Septem
ber 10th.' Tho very next day hor moth
er had hor arm wrenched by a car of
tho Chicago City Railway, and ro
coivod $100 for it. And then camo tbo
final play which put an ond to tho per
sonal injury ambitions of this inter
esting family.
A Claim on Oluristmas Eve,
Tho claim agont of tho Rook Island
Railway was sitting in his office on tho
Christmas Evo following the events
narrated above whon tho "largo woman
of dark comploxion," described by Dr.
Hubbard, walked into his oflleo and In
formed him that hor daughter Fannie
Freoman had been injured while- riding
on ono of tho trains of tho Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. The
woman averred that she and her two
daughters, Jennio and Fannio, had
boarded tho Pern pccoinmodatipq train
which left Chicago station .at M50 P.
M. on December lOtb, and that a sud
den start .of the train had caused Fan
nio to fall, striking hor back ngnlnst
a sont. As a, result tho girl had becomo
paralyzed, and ruined for lifo.
Now tho claim agent had novor
hoard of tho Freeman family; but in
tho course of his investigations ho
found sovornl incongruities in tho
mothor's statement which mado him
suspicious. For instnnco, no thrco sin
gle trip tickets to Englewood had boon
punched by Conductor II. II. Fenlmoro,
who wns in chargo of tho 4:50 train.
Englnoer Ell Iloddor nnd the entire
train crow wero positlvo that no sudduu
start had been mado or was poBslblo
at tho sceno of tho "accident." Again
tho claimant stuted that sho nnd her
uninjurod daughter had saved thorn
solvos from falling by catching hold
of tho strops "hanging in tho car,"
whorco tho Rook Island cars woro not
equipped with strops. And for this
apparont ruiuntlon of a young girl's
lifo, for this prospcot of a long futuro
of invalidism, they nskod only $2000.
"Tho Profession of dotting Hurt,"
in tho July Pearson's.
I Dog Tax Day.
Tho dog dnyn begin somewhat enrly
I this your, or at least tho days of tho
onnino troublo doos for tho dog tnx;
becomes duo tomorrow. It hcoiiin real
ly hard to think that a dog hns to pay
for tho privllcgo of being a dog, but
man in his wisdom lovles a poll tnx
'on both poor mon nnd poor dog; and
tho lnttor has s,omowliat Hie worst of
It, for on fnlluro to sottlo tho tux ho
' goes to tho pound, nnd thoneo to that
bourne from which no dog over returns
and no doggoued porsou has ever lo-oatoil.
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A pupils' rocital glvou by Win. Wal
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st, at tho Presbytorlan church. Sit
Bummer Normal.
Tho Capital Summer Normal opened
this morning with an enrollment of 75.
I Many moro will enroll in a f ow days.
This promises to bo tho largest anl
best summer normal ever hold in 8a
jlem. Tho instructors nro J. J. Krnp,
superintendent; E. T. Moores nnd Prof.
Matthows, of tho Willamette Universi
ty. Superintendent Trnvcr will bo pres
ent next week. Classes are formed ta
all branches for stato und county pa
pors; also in Latin, stonogrnphy mull
typewriting.
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