Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-21
HENRY GOLFERS wINDFAIL.
Further Partlculars About the $780,
900 Legaey-The Much Lookeo'io'
Legatee Turns Up. s.,,
San Francisco Chronicle.


San Francisco Chronicle.
On Monday lasf, tie C'-..roaicte published
An account of search for one Henry Col-
ter, 10 whom a fortune Of $20O,OOO mas
been left by Charles Jessup, who lateiy
died in Massachusetts,. The circumstances
which led to the legacy are peculiar: eei-
ter and r. II: farser, al present we'll
known merchant in this city, were, in 1924,
in business in Oregon, and Golfer intruSted
JeSsup, then a young man, with s., ,SOO 10
bring to Mr.. Parker, who looked after the
business here. Jessup embeEkled the
money and fed with it to South America
Parker at the time accused Golfer of steal
ing the money, and believed for twenty
years that he did it. The firm was broken
up, and Golfer, who had already become
somewhat addicted to drink, went 10 The
dogs completely. The Chronicle has al
ready explained how Jessup made large
fortune in South America, and how he
went home to Massachusetts, TO enjoy IT.
and died there few months ago, leaving
10 the man he had wronsed twenty years
before, 100000. Golfer was advertised
for in the Chronicle, and any person know
ing of his whereabouts was requested TO
send word to an attorney In this city. w
W. hliOMitOA' NAS vi a. L. DahcAO' -
Co.
Last Wednesday morning 4 little. Old
dried up man, about forty, was pattering
about a country hotel, near Watsonyille.
doing his regular chores for his bed and
board. The little old man, -slsese weight IS
not one hundred pounds, has for years been
deyOtee of the bottle, and Onthis OCCASION
he was particularly shaly and nervous. His
L. Oh aud his lifffa
red nose shone like a wet radish. lie had
worked but a moment ortwo Che was scour>
ing some knives at the time), when
man came hurrying into the room
with copy of the Chronicle in
his hand, and shouted, ''Here YOU are Coz
ter. Rouse yourself, man. You've been
lefs 500, COO The little old man stared
wildly about him, and his knives and brick
dust fell from his nerveleSs hands. With
trembling grasp be seized the paper and
hurriedly read the article. "At last! at
lastr' he yelled. 'They said | stole it, and
now the truth is out. Great God. After
twenty years of patient waiting my honor
Is cleared and my good name IS returned
to me-"
Like a fash the circumstaces all came
back 10 his memory, and, burying his face
/ III lis ALAuuS, bC lAAAiN AOA W. @-~H
| he told his friends all about the case, re-
lating each detail, how he lost the money,
how he was accused of stealing it, and
how. in consequence, lie had wandered
| about the earth for twenty years with the
brand of shame upon his brow.
There was no more securing OF knives
that day. Golfer straightened himself up;
| bv the help of some friends he got me
| u o,,A Frl,rrr-eflax- ntnnrninr ha
| left for san Francisco to find MIR. knoTltOn,
the LAWYER who advertised for information
| concerning him. That gentleman had gone
to Oregon, but he had left word thai he
| would be back in a few days, and so Golfer
went in search Of his former partner. That
| gentleman was found after some little
trouble. He recognized Golfer at once, and
| sent him to the Cosmopolitan hotel to
await Mr.. KnowltOn's return. Mr.. Parker
confirmed the intelligence Of the windfall,
/ and laughingly told Golfer that, as the
| original $500 that was stolen v as half his
property, it was no more than fair that half
i of the legacy should be his also.
I.ast night Mr.. Golfer called at the ChTOa-
/ icle Office to thank the people there Tor CIV
| ing him the news of his good fortune. lie
was laboring under great excitement, be
| irg, as he said, more pleased and oVeIJOyed
| AT having his name cleared than at the
news of his sudden wealth. He said that
since the robbery be had been utterly good
for nothing. He came near drinking him
| self to death several times, and he had
worried and fretted over the thought that
| by all his old acquaintances he was believed
to be a thief. until he was untitled for any
respectable employment. For years he had
/ l,,,v, nd the N-lInla llRHflfs
| Coast.
In answer TO a question how he lost the
money, Golfer said that he was bringing
the cash (S4S0O,) which belonged TO his
| firm, or rather it belonged to other parties,
though they were responsible for il, from
| Olympia TO this city. Jessup and another
man, whose name he had forgotten, left in
| the same steamer with him from Olympia
the steamer America On. the way
| Golfer saws he got on 4 terrible spree, and
while in that condition gave the money 10
| JeSsup to carry to Mr.. Parker. lie
| did this, he saws, because he did not want
| Mr.. Parker TO see him in the state he was
in. JesSup ran away with the money, and
that was the last he ever heard of him until
last Wednesday. Ruined in pocket and
bankrupt in character, Golfer turned over
the business to his partner, and became q
wanderer. He did little Of everything.
He became a guide for a surveying party OF
the Pacific Railroad, guiding at one time
Gen. Mcclellan (then Capt. McClellan),
who was running a survey across the CONT
nent. He then enlisted in the army, and
served thirteen years, being discharged last
from the Second Artillery. Previous lC
this, however, he had worked for Dent
| Vapfina Il 20 at KniOhf'S Ferry DEM
was brOther-in-law Of 'that man up there,
said Mr.. Golfer, pointing to a picture o
President Grant on the wall, "and Fv'
seen him many time at Knights Ferry
He was Captain Grant then, and cOulC
drink more whisky than could, and that!
saving a good deal, l can tell you, for il
those days / could punish fearful quan
tiy."