The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-01-22
cLsmpsEs OF HAnn TIMES.
Items Collected at a New York Pawn
brolses-A shop.

Upon visiting = pawnbroker's Office in
New YORK q reporter for the World obtained
an insight into the misery of many family,
SIS well az the games of many q 'tsna5by-gen-
teel. tie makes the result OF his investiza-
tons the theme of very readable article
from which we select the following extracts:
"rhsse little trinkets." said she, ''were
birthday present from my husband to Cur
only child, Mollie. when she YVES twelve
years old. My husband then had very
good business down togD, but three years
ago the firm that ne was with failed. and he
lost six months salary besides being thrown
out OF his position. He did nothing for
three months, but was finally offered a
position in another house. He was to have
gone in on the lst of January, 1877, but be-
fore that time came that firm failed. too and
closed up business AT that time we had
scarcely anything left 20 live on, and he wss
taken sick. He could not fill responsible
position now even if it was offered to him.
Then Mollie was taken i'll and the doctor
says she can never get well. We have
rAwSED EVERYTHING
that we had. For MollIe's watch ard locket,
for which, / believe, my husband paid SIS,
the pawnbroker gave me $50. / hope to re-
deem them after few months, but at the
end of the first year | had all | could do 70
raise the So necessary TO save them from
being forfeited. This year was determined
to get them back If bad to starve myself to
/
to the pawnbroker, but it was to late. They
had been forfeited and ordered to be sold at
auction. ] managed 10 raise $40 more, and
two or three times | came down here hoping
10 be present when they were put up for sale
and buy them in. They were finally
reached, but before l knew i5 they were sold
for exactly the amount of money that had
/ brought with me. Now the man that has
them will rot sell them for less than SO,
and l know l shgll never see them again.
a BILK's SWORD.
1 Among the articles sold that day was q
very handsome sword. On one side OF the
blade, near the hilt, there was en- inscription
in Spanish, and on the other side was the
| same inscription iii English. 1t appeared
that the sword had Eeen Presented to
! Generally the ladies of Boston," The
/ reporter determined to find out something
about the history of the former owner or
this weapon if possible, and SO called on q
gentleman who was a leader of fashion In
this city ten or fifteen years ago. After
scratching his bald head few moments, the
old gentleman said, why. yes, 1 remember
him; but when he was in New York he
passed for a baron and not general. i in
vited him to dinner several times, and
found ont that, though he might have been
baron by title, he was certainly barren by
wits. He turned out to be fraud OF the
first water. l didn't know before that be
had been presented with sword by the
ladies' of Boston, but ana not surprised st
it. He Is equal TO almost anything. done
think he got many tokens of esteem, from
the people of this city, but whatever things
of value he picked up went to the pawn
brokers, no doubt. But it was during the
winter of 1857 or 1858 that he was in New
York, and this sword must have passed
through Z good many hands since then.
found out three years after the baron disap
peared from American society that he wa,
The son OF Manchester tailor, and that the
only weapon he had been accustomed to wa:
the shears