, 1874-09-06


Out Of the 1nanT culpr1ss who daily ar
raigued before tho Police Courts OF the city
there arc not g. few who have history. lcster-
day the dockat in the South Side Police Court
contained tna following entry.
l" Giovanni Giuseppi Foscari; larceny COM
plainant, John Moran nativity, Italy; profess |
sion, artist; age. 20 years. The ev!dence |
against tho prisoner was that he, on Friday last,
entered the saloon Of Moran, and when net OBJ |
served puroined IS from the ves~pocket OF the !
owner.
Upon being arraigned for be airing he pleaded
Not guilty" and strongly persisted in hia in
nocence TIC charge changed to disorderly.
and lo Was fined z15. Being unable to settle,
tho accused Was committed to . cell III the Eur :.
rison Street Station. The appearance OF II o
foreigner, although standing in the prisoed :'s
dock Of police-court as thief, was that q I
cultivated gentleman, OF superior mind. )ur-
ing the afternoon TRIBUNE reporter caG1 ID on
the Italian in his cell to learn Lis history, nd lie
Willingly told it.
Born near the snow-capped peaks, tis career,
rugged as his mountain cradle, had carTr I'd him
over many field unknown to ordinary aortals.
A shepherd boy, he fed his fathers shet p in Al
pine passes, and nurtu1cd an in.azts artistic
taste By carving lsmb-ike forms from: the SHOWS
Of the valley the form diyin. of En-
gsh chop-wiskercd tourists. wlo it'll g1rded
lnlns ana Pike in ha1d. souEa 1t Alpiue
flowers amid tho glaciers He hs bowed in
genuine worship before tl,e Venus Medici at
Florence, and given vent 70 his cnt ausiasm for
tue beautiful by copying tlse Dying Gladiator at
Rome. He had ga1ed on the wall g1l.es OF re-
eurreoted Pompoll. and dreamed Of antique
workers in bronze and millionaire atronB.
The beauty OF the Bay OF Naples so captured
him thss he lost all sight Of the uH fu and like
thousands Of other children Of gen us, in his ad-
1rratinu for everything endowed VI ith rha faf 81
dover of beauty, ho became acre idler and
wandeser, with 10 object save >mplete enjoy
ment Of what he from behind h i iron bars is
pleaeed to term - dolce far n;ent :"
He went to Paris, and from y .cro do-nothing
gathering aoclai stra~s on the " ,uleyard he waa
transformed by tho storms OF tiH revolution into
Communist Of the worst scht ,ol. aud was left
for dead behind tas tsrrcade Vi tie Rue Richie
leu. Returning to eonsciouss eas and attempt
ing to escape, be was marched Of with q squad
of prisoners to dig his . 1n grave. and
ha,' tns xSsa Ss hss sss d G9 pi,ered da,s on
But fortune favors the ant c,:tunate vasabond.
10 die in the last ditcr., aIjl that ditch Of his
own making was not n stoEe for him. His star
vas once more in the ascend Ancy. and BY some
strange freak-no Incomn on freak either III
love and war-he '.ound himself rescued and
provided with the means OF tight. The greas
land Of the free xas before him, and Chicago,
with her parks, aer monster hotels, her paiati.l
residences, he magnetic mediums, her big
scandals her1 iyorce cases, her broad avenues
and trottng 1orees, and, last but not least, her
beautiful VIC men, ioomed up in the far-oT dis
tance as aitable home for youth with artistic
culture.
: He CAT %; every naueion Wabash a7enue
was to Il! 1 the studio he IN with orders for
fcpetisie rs Of the masterpieces Of the Old
Worlds galleries He came How he know not.
Whose money paid his wav; wl,oso influence
zaycd him from tue Chasaep OF of tho Versailles
troces he mover learned He saw what too
rnaoy strsusers in all large cities seek to scc,-
thee-card monte men; ths well-dresssd con-
fifience gentlemen; tho gs.y side Of Western
life; and the Napolcons with Which unknown
friends had supplied him dropped away one by
one. until there remained nothing of fuuas,
hopes, and air-castes, ,-ouly poverty and desra-
dation-
This man, who is an accomplished Gnguist, q
tst,on M for meal. stra, ,ga TO ray notw:thstauc-
ipR Tue invisible hand " nlcl has hcrosoforo sue
cored him. the strasber ~ mark on hls right arm,
md ths Gross o1 tbs Lsgion of Honor WHICH