The Russellville Democrat., 1881-02-17
VICTIM OF AN ADVENTURES.
A China Merchant Robbed and in the Poor
 House.
san Frnncisco Chronicle.

san Francisco Chronicle.
 Several years ago John H. Horgan was very prosperous merchant residing in China, where he had extensive business interests and was also the owner of con- siderable real estate and improvements thereon. He regarded himself as wealthy, and was so considered by all who knew him. His business was large and con- stantly increasing, and he seemed to be favored child of Fortune, destined to amass wealth, the possession of which by an East Indian or China merchant is considered matter of course. It was at | this period that Fortune gave the first of a series ot frowns which have driven the prosperous merchant almost into beggary, have made him a wanderer, and have eliminated by almost depriving him of his earthly existence-if not this, at least to days and perhaps weeks of suffering upon cot in the City and County Hos- pital His Nemesis has been a woman, a serpent which has been nurtured in his bosom only to turn upon and strike him with the bangs of extravaganza and treachery. She was young, beautiful and accomplished, and thoroughly facinated him, and succeeded in not only gaining his unreserved confidence, but in obtain ing such a firm hold upon his purse that ruin soon stared him in the face. He was blindly infatuated, and she waste fully and unsclupulously extravagant. There could be but one result Piece by piece his property was converted into coin, only to be reeklessly squandered by his evil genius. His business struck many rock and became complete wreck, but small remnant of his fortune remaining. The woman now found she had bled her victim of his dollars until the flow had nearly ceased, and she de- termined to throw him aside as being of no further use. He had some money left, and never dreaming that her pro- fessed love for himself was other than genuine, allowed nearly all of it-some $20,000-to get into her possession. This was all she desired, and, coolly appro- priating it, she decamped, coming to San Francisco, where she married a ship broker, who is well known in mercantile circles. The assumed love of the adven- turess had taken mighty hold upon Horgans affections, and her robbery and assertion broke his heart and ruined him. He left his business to others and it soon collapsed, and penniless and bowed down with his troubles he wan dered to this city. He had friends here, and being fine scholar and good busi- ness man, they readily secured position for him. His trouble had been too heavy for him to bear up under, however, and so affected his spirits that he neither could keep this place nor others provided for him. It is only when mans for tunes are rising that so-called friends are willing and even eager, to render assist ance. Horgan was on the down-grade, and he received none, unless it might have been push to expedite his move ment in his downward course. He soon reached the bottom, and was glad to ac- cept job shoveling coal in the hold of a vessel on the city front. Yesterday he began his second days work there, but as early as 7 o'clock in the morning fell into the hold of the vessel, fracturing his right wrist and receiving other serious | injuries. He was removed to the city receiving hospital, where he told his story as it appears above, his manner and conversation indicating that he was | speaking the truth. He was soon after removed to the City and County Hos pital.