Connecticut western news., 1878-07-25
A PRODIGATSS DEATH.
Singular Career of an EnGlishman in the
 West-Sqnandering a Fortune Of S3,OOO,-
 900 and Dying by Poison -Gueins and Genile Birth come to Naught.

announcement which spread through the. city like wildfire that Henry Green, or the "crazy Englishman," the cogno- men by which he was more fsmiliarly known, had been found dead in a ravine on Twentieth street, was matter of no considerable surprise to any one, as the event had been thousand times fore told, the surprise being, in fact, that it had not occurred sooner The freaks and eccentricities of Green have formed the basis of many newspaper story, and his career, or at least that portion of it connected with the earlier period of his residence in Leavenwerth, is familiar to nearly every one. Possessed of memory coextensive Tn it's grasp with the scope of a hundred abstruse subj ects, he fascinated those who came near him when he chose to exert himself in the delightful art of pleasing and then, in the short space of few hours, transfer ring himself from the polished gentle man, the travelled scholar and the man of science and letters into wild and reckless devotee of sin, whose sole ann seemed to be to set at defiance the code of morality and goodness in the mad en- deavor to satisfy an insatiate thirst, an ihordinate craving for the notoriety of an abandoned debauchee. He was gradu- ate of one of the first of England's uni versailles, but during his college life and succeeding that period he led such wild and reckless life that he estranged his family, and being too stubborn to yield he departed from home, friends and kin dred and became wanderer. From source which may be accepted as reliable is gathered the information that his property was estimated at $3, ,000, 900, the estate originally of the family being $9, ,000,0 and divided equally between three helrs, of which he was one. A sister is said to be somewhere in Ger many, and brother, Hugh Percy Green, in England. It is believed that he came of gentle blood. The story of his for tune is told in various ways, but all agree, that he was very wealthy Not being. able to -competently and judicious- 1 1y manage the estate himself, it was taken out of his hands and certain sum allowed him for a living, about $1O, ,O00 year. He took no care of himself in his manner of living, and even when hay ing control of an almost unlimited sup 1 ply of money he was unmindful of his dress, although not what might be called sloven1y in his habits. His first appear ance in 4Leavenworth was nearly. four years ago, when he made-a most tremend- ous stir by his iberality and generosity, spending thousands upon his friends and reserving not single cent for him. self. His liquor bills were frequently from $500 to $500 per month, not for himself most certainly, but for his friends, of whom, as matter of neces- sity, he had hundreds.
 One night while disorderly fancy was holding high revel in his brain, he hired 8 hearse, coffin and several mourning carriages and proceeded to have funeral all by himself. He placed the coffin in- side the hearse, got into the coffin, at. tended by bottle of whisky, and with the hired carriages following the solemn procession took it's course through the principal streets of the city just as the mantle of night was being drawn about the tired metropolis. No one Tn par. ticular noticed the cortege as it wound it's way through the crowds of carriages and buggies laden with pleasure seekers, merely remarking, perhaps, that it was a queer time of day for such an observ, ance. But when the procession made its appearance upon the same thorough. fares two or three times, in such quick succession, not having been to any one of the cemeteries in the interval, the idea gradually dawned upon the people that they were being duped, and upon closer investigation Green was found sitting upon the coffin in the hearse drinking and having the best time i'm. aginable, and too much under the inhu, ence of liquor to realize what 8 sacri
 legious piece of mockery it really was
 Greens one great mania was riding il hacks. He would hire hack in the city by the month, paying fabulous sum for it, and would rarely ever be seen walking. He was uneasy wher seated in any other description of vehi
 cle, and there are hundreds who have doubtless noticed this same peculiarity
 He was generous to a fault, never look
 ing twice at bill when rendering it il payment for anything, and thus it was that he was continually imposed upor and incontinently robbed of thousands
 For the past three years or so he has been living at the residence of Mir
 George Waller, corner of Orange anG Tenth streets, and during the past yea has been down in, town so seldom anc
 been seen in public so little that he wal , well nigh forgotten by, the majority O our citizens, he existing in their minds simply as a strange and fantastic dream
 until the whole city was startled by the report of his death. It seems tha he had continued his old drinking habits, though in @ somewhat modified form, devovt1ng his time mainly to thu study of chemistry, of which he wa passionateIy fond. Itwould appear als' that the failure of the usual remittanc , from England, together with the load o 7 accumulated debt, weighed so upon hin , that, in weak and unguarded moment
 with the flores of his being all but un
 strung by the influence of deep pota
 tions, he prepared the fatal dose whicl was the cause ot the unveiling to Henr, G,oo,, of ba oq tho ei1n,o