Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1850-11-09

Io'hiiiS IHueeu, lie Seetileu NJ tho' b"S
very handsomely provided for.
every soon Mr.. and Mrs. Mclincs Fitz'
Roy began to disagree. She was cold, cor
rect--he was hot and random. He was
quite dependent on her. and she made him
feel it. When be began to get into debt he
came to me. At length some shocking
quarrel occurred some case of jealousy on
the wife's side, not without reason, be-
lieve; and the end of it was, MIR. Fitz-Roy
was turned out OF doors. The house was
his wife's, the furniture was his wife's, and
the fortune was his wife's-he was, in fact,
her pensioner. He left with few hun
dred pounds ready money, and some per-
sonal jewelry, and went TO a hotel. On
these and credit he lived. Being illegiti-
mate, he had no relations; being fool,
when he spent his money he lost his friends.
The world took his wfe's part, when it
found she had the fortune, and the only
parties who interfered were her relatives,
who did their best to make the quarrel IN
durable. To crown all, one night he was
run over by cab, was carried to hospl-
tai, and lay there for months, and was, du-
ring several weeks of the time, unconscious.
A message to his wife, by the hands of one
of his debauched companions, sent by a
humane surgeon, obtained an intimation
that 'if he died Mr.. Croak, the undertaken
to the family, had orders to see to the fu-
neral,' and that Mrs. Molinos was on the
point OF starting for the Continent, not 20
return for some years.
"When Fitz Roy was discharged, he
came to me limping on two sticks, to pawn
his court suit, and told me his story. Twas
really sorry for the fellow, such hand
some, thoroughbred looking man. He
was going then into the west somewhere,
to try to hunt out friend.
"'What TO do, Balance he said, q don't
know. l can't dig, and unless somebody
will make me their gamekeeper, | must
starve, or beg, as my Jezebel bade me when
we partedn
81 lost sight of Molinos for a long time,
and when l next came upon him it was in
the roolery of Westminster, in low lodg-
ing-house, where / was searching with an
officer for stolen goods. He was pointed
out to me as the gentleman cadger,' be-
cause he was so free with his money when
sin luck He recognized me, but turned
away then. l have since seen him, and
relieved him more than once, although he
never asks for anything. How he lives,
Heaven knows. Without money, without
friends, without useful education of any
kind, he tramps the country as you saw
him, perhaps doing little, hop picking,
or hay-making, in season, only happy when
he obtains the means to get drunk. I have
heard, through the kitchen whispers, that
you know, come to me, that he Is entitled
to some property and expect il he were
to die, his wife would pay the hundred
pound bill hold at any rate, what | have
told you know 10 be true, and the bundle
OF rags | relieved Just now is known in
every thieves lodging in England as the
gentleman cadger.'" .............
This story produced an impression on me
Il am fond Of speculation, and like the
excitement of legal hunt as much as some
do fox-chase. A gentleman, beggar, a
wife rolling in wealth, rumors OF unknown
property due to the husband : il seemed al
if there were pickings for me amidst thi.
carrion OF pauperlsm. |
Before returning from Liverpool, / hat
purchased the gentleman beggar's accept
ance from Balance. ! then inserted in tht
|, "Times" the following advertisement:
"Horatio .Molinos Fits Roy.-Ifthis gen
tleman will apply to David Discount, Esq.
Solicitor, St. James's, he will hear of some
thing to his advantage. Any person fur
nishing Mr.. Fps correct address, shall re
ceve II. is. reward. He was last seen,
, sc.
Within twenty-four hours ] had ampl
proof of the wide circulation Of th'
: "Times." My office was besieged witt
beggars of every degree, men and women
f lame and blind, Irish, Scotch and English
? some on crutches, some in bowls, some il
go carts. They all knew him as the ''gen
tleman," and must do the regular frater
D nifty OF tramps the justice to say, that nc
| one would answer question until he mad
certain that | meant the ''gentleman" n
8 harm. ..,..- ......... ..... .
r One evening, about three weeks after th
| appearance OF the advertisement, my cler
announced ''aDother beggar" There cam
4! in an old man leaning upon staff, clad
: a soldiers great coat all patched and tori
!, with battered hat, from under which
n mass Of tangled hair fell over his shoulder
D and half concealed his face. The begga
in weak, wheezy, hesitating tone said
Ie "You have advertised tor Molinos Fit
,r Roy. hope you don't mean him an
" harm; he is sunk, think, too low for eI
le nifty now and surely no one would spo
he with such misery as his"
a These last words were uttered in so
of piteous whisper. ,
Ut l answered quickly, "Heaven forbid
of should sport with misery; mean and hoI
of to do him good, as well as myself"
''Then, sir, am Molinos Fitz-Roy" !"
j. While we were conversing candles hi
r. been brought in. have not very tend
e. nerves--my head would not agree wi
as lthem-but / own l started and shudder,
a when l saw and knew that the wretch,
Mt creature before me was under thirty yea
he of age, and once gentleman. Sharp, aqr
rst line features, reduced to literal skin al
u homo were heorimed and covered with a