Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1850-11-07

pointment in public office, was preser-
ted by the Marquis at court, and receive
ed into the first society, where his hand
some person and agreeable manners made
him great favorite. Soon after coming
of age, he married the daughter of Sir
E. Bumper, who brought him very
handsome fortune, which was strictly
settled on herself. They lived in most
splendid style, kept several carriages, a
house in town, and place in the coun-
TRY. For some reason or other, idle
ness, or to please his lady's pride he
said, he resigned his appointment. His
father died, and left him nothing indeed,
he seemed at that time very handsomely
provided for
every soon Mr.. and Mrs. Molinos
Fitz-Roy began to disagree. She was
cold, correct, he was hoi. and random
He was quite dependent on her, and she
made him feel it. When he 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, | believe, and the end
was Fitz-Roy was turned out of doors.
The house was his wife's, the furniture
and the fortune was hers also,-he was,
in fact, her pensioner. He left with a
few hundred pounds ready money, and
some personal jewelry, and went to a
hotel. On these and credit he lived
Being illegitimate, he had no relations !;
being fool, when he spent his money
he lost his friends. The world took his
wife's part, when they found that she had
the fortune, and the only parties who in
terfered were her relatives, who did their
best to make the quarrel incurable. To
crown all, one night he was run over by
a cab, was carried to hospital, and lay
there for months, and was during sever
al weeks of the time unconscious. A
message to the wife, by the hands of one
of his debauched companions, sent by a
humane surgeon, obtained an intimation
that 6 if he died, Mr.. Croak the UNDER
taker to the family, had orders to see to
the funeral and that Mrs. Molinos was
on the point of starting for the Continent,
not to 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. was real
ly sorry for the fellow, such handsome,
thorough bred looking man., He was
going then into the west somewhere, to
try to hunt out friend. What to do,
Balance he said, Il don't know. l
can't dig, and unless somebody will
make me their gamekeeper, must starve
or beg, as my Jezebel babe me when we
partedp"
9" lost sight Of Molinos for long
time, and when next came upon him it
was in the Rookery Of Westminster, in
a low clearinghouse, where l was
searching with an officer for stolen
goods. He was pointed out to me as
the gentleman cadger,' because he was
so free with his money when in luck.
He knew me, but turned away. have
since seen and relieved him, more than
once, although he never asks for any
thing. 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, ] have heard
thro' the kitchen whispers that you know
come to me, that he is entitled to some
property and l expect if he were to
die, his wife would pay the hundred
pound bill | hold; at any rate, what ]
have told you | know to be true, and the
bundle of rags relieved just now is
known in every thieves lodging in Eng
land, as the gentleman cadger.'"
This story produced an impression on
mel am fond of speculation, ard like
the excitement of legal hunt as much
as some do fox chase. A gentleman a
beggar, a wife rolling in wealth, rumors
of unknown property due to the hus-
band; it seems as if there were pickings
for me amidst this carrion of pauperism.
Before returning from Liverpool, /
had purchased the gentleman beggar's
acceptance from Balance. then insert
ed in the " Times" the following adver-
tisement =" Horatio Molinos Troy
If this gentleman will apply to David
Discount, Esq, Solicitor, St. James's,
he will hear of something to his advan-
tage. Any person furnishing Mr.. F.'s
correct address, shall receive 81. Is.
reward. He was last SEEM" &c.
Within twenty-four hours had ample
proof of the wide circulation of the
" Times" My office was besieged by
beggars of every degree, men and wo-
men, lame and blind, Irish, Scotch, and
English, some on crutches, some in bowls,
some in go-carts. They all knew him
as "the gentleman" and ] must do the
regular fraternity Of tramps the justice
to say that not one would answer cues
ton until he made certain that | meant
the gentleman no harm.
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