The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-01
Romance and Reality.
tKansas City Times.l

Every old resident of Kansas City re
members Limpey," the pale-faced
emaciated little vagabond of two oil
three years ago. Four years age
"Limpey" slept in hay-lofts, in cellar,
and empty freight cars, and when he
was not out on the lay" either BACKED
boots or begged for food " Limpey y
was under the ban of the police in thi.
city, and had it not been for his crippled
condition and consumptive appearance
he would have been sent to the work.
house az vagrant. While he was a
resident in this city he was great pest
to the police, as he was the leader of a
most incorrigible gang of young hood.
lums, who infested the fall fairs in the
West and defied the detection of the de-
tectives or the efforts of the police to
break up the gang.
"Limpey" went away in June, 1876,
and was lost to sight and memory both
until yesterday, when he reappeared
among his old acquaintance man
among men, and married to the girl of
his choice. Limpey," or, as he now
styles himself, Dennis Garrighan, came
to this city among party of little boys
from the House of Refuge in New York,
and was distributed with the rest of
those who desired to adopt children.
Limpey," being thin and lame, met
with poor treatment, and was soon again
a waif upon the streets. In June, 1876,
Limpey" made his way to Denver,
and from thence to Deadwood in the
Black Hills, where he became interested
with party o. the mountain miners,
Joe and Aleck Cosgrove and Sanderson
Miller, with whom he engaged as cook,
becoming part owner in all their discov-
cries. They were remarkably lucky last
summer, realizing between $S0, 900 and
$40, 1000, of which "Limpey" received
about 1000, besides shares in various
lodes located by his partners. He re-
turned to Kansas City last Wednesday,
to pay debt of gratitude to friend of
the days of his poverty, an old woman
who kept den in the old Globe House
on the lcvee, and afterward eked out
miserable existence with her little
daughter in the old Butterfield Building
on Grand Avenue, who had been
mother to the refugee. He had never
appealed to the old woman in vain when
he wanted either concealment from the
police or shelter from the weather. In
his prosperity Dennis did not forget old
Mrs. Stein and her daughter. More
than one letter has reached them within
the past year, bringing money and COM
fort. They changed their home from the
squalid, poverty-stricken rooms on
Grand Avenue to as,nall but respectable
house on Oak, near Fourteenth Street,
where they remained awhile, but re-
moved to rooms on South Main Street.
TO cut the story short, I" Limpey' came
back last week well heeled," and so
changed in appearance that his old
friends did not know him. His lameness
has almost entirely left him, and he
weighs twice as much as when he left
here. He was married on Friday night
to Miss Mary Stein, in the presence Of
select party of friends. g Limpey"
proposes to return to Deadwood with
his young wife and his mothcr-in-law.
He is as modest with his wealth as he
was saucy and troublesome in his pow
erty. There is one feature about
+" Limpey's" actions which commends it
self to notice-he did not forget the
friends he found in the days Of his adj
versity.