LOCKED IN CAR 48 HOURS.
Boy Suffers From Hunger and
Thirst on Way From New Orleans.
Stowed away in a car filled with green bananas, Martin Berger, 17 years old, was held a prisoner for forty-eight hours without food or water. Berger entered the car in New Orleans and found a place just large enough to allow him to stand in. Then the doors were locked and the train started for Kansas City.
The enforced standing exhausted Berger and he suffered from thirst. When he became hungry he searched the bunches of bananas but was unable to find fruit sufficiently ripe to eat. When the train reached Kansas City, Berger fainted as the door was opened.
The police were notified and took the young man to headquarters, where he said he was endeavoring to reach his home in New Albany, Ind. An officer took the boy to a restaurant, where he devoured four separate meals before he offered to quit. The policeman refused to buy the fifth one for him. After a rest at the Helping Hand, the young man again started out on his way home.
