Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1862-06-19

yer applied for assistance TO regain possession
Of his Bath chair EIo sail that, at three o.
clock ON the previous afternoon, al order came
to the chail-stinl for Il gentleman to be taken
up from a street at the back OF st. Mary
Church he took the chair round, and found
Dr. Stuni}cn upon the dooT-steDs waiting lor
him. Not knowing that the people OF the
house had shut him out: and so got rld OF
troublesome l0lGtr, he assisted him into the
chair ami had been driving hun about ever
since. \ laugh. Magistrate: What; ever
since three yesterday afternoon, all night; APP
pcant: Yes, sir, except for q little while. |
can't get him out Of the chair anyhow. | was
wheeling him about from three in the afternoon
until paSt two III the morning. Laughter. i
Magistrate: | can see how | an to help YOU;
he has rot 20 session OF yvrr chair. y here IS
he now? Applioent Hc doesn't know / We
come here. / left him ana the chair opposite
Mr. IIger's the butcher $. Magistrate: But
has he had any rctIc&hmcnt al this time? Ap-
plicant IIor bless yc! Why I've druy him to
hearty every pubiic-housc IN the toTn-speclal-
" to pier-eni he calls for something to drink,
and then gives the best part OF it away
laughter - cpt what he put in little square
bottle he carries with him Loud laughter.
After driving him to all these places: | was
tired. 50 I said to him. ':When Go you mean to
90 home again. sir??' ':That'13 my business,
says he you mind yours, AMI drive me back
to the pic1-end Laughter. And there.
sir We went from one house to the other until
il was twelve clock, and he couldn't get any
thing else served Then tlruv him about the
town. Laughter. SupeIinten>! lent Coram
raised a new roar OF laughter by adding that.
III one . clock in the morning, he saw the chair
pulled up close t. one OF the public lamps. ny
the light of which the doctor was reading. Re-
ncwed laughter Magistrate: How long did
he keep reading? APP licant: Not long, slr;
Soon afterwards he lit his pipe. Laughter.
7 was very cold and he said [ might keep him
| movng:' so pulled the chair until between
and then | says to him, quite worm out, ''where
top says he. Loud laughter. Home"
says l. Then he told me he hadnt any home
to 90 to, and he asked me where [ was going to
put the chair told him in the coach-house,
where I kept it. :'Ah, " says he, ':that'll do
very well-put me in with it. | shall be just
as well in this chair as in bed, and SO you
know he would, sir. Loud laughter. Mag
istrae: And SO you locked him upin the coach
house all night? Applicant: left him there
about three, and looked in about five to see
whether he was all right, and then he told me
he had never slept more comfortable in all his
life. Laughter. At halfpast six I tool him
Il cup Of coffee, part of which he drank, and
told ne he was quite ready to begin his morn
ing visits when was; but ain agoing to
draw him about the town all day to-day 4
laugh. Magistrate: Well, he can make you
draw him about; that's OPTIONAL What was
he doing, when you left him just now? Appi-
cant: Reading or writing, or smoking. Ser
geant Bailey was directed to accompany appli-
cant to the chair, and try The effect of his uni
form and authority upon the occupant. A
small crowd accompanied them, and in due time
! the chair was found where CoIlyer had left it.
lie received orders from the Dnctnr to call at