The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-10-27
A Wealthy Beggar.

.i ine ~ story of preferrlng to beg
ratheI s, eaaan work, and of becomlno rich
from ,ll's sims given in charity. was yery
forcioay plought out before Mauistrate
ooutn % the Central Station Yesterday
mornings Nicholas Hauk. a sturdy old
peSSSai' ~ and broad-shouldered. but
silghnt seeoplng. and with gray hairs
tll'is s,s...'z S'.s.'s* no yeneration with them,
was el,fsfssfQ g 80 with being beggar; and a
! speciai s'.Her testified that he had found
MN oesssss,ag at Second and Buttonwood
streeIs nee3gnizing in him an old Of
Tender sne Alagistrate sent him to the
douse ~ %orrection for thirty days-a
sentences very distasteful to Hauk. who
always nplalns that they do not give
good eneisa fool in the city insfitp-
tons. ne history of the man, so far as
u cange ses'3ed. IS q remarkable one.
lie ciNlhs tube seventy-seveny years old.
IS OF 6erssh descent, and has been
bcggw ffk arly forsy years. What Ia
due - t:ska up s.feh business
whethG Tw;as financial troubles. or
utter lAfhess and disinclination to work,
or at fist real nepessity-is not known:
but it IS certain tiat through it he has
managed to accurulate much more of
this worlds goodsthan falls to the ordi-
nary worker Different stories are told
as to his wealth. Some say that he owns
several houses in Camden, valued at
many thousand dollars, and has also laid
away a very prettysum in cash Con-
siderable sums hare been found upon
him when arrested, but yesterday had
evidently been poor day with him up
to the time Of his arrest, for he had ONLY
one dollar in cash With him, and note
for eighty dsllars.
Hauk stind of late has been at Sixth
and Arch Streets, and for short time
he has been boarding over Charles G.
Ockins' SALON, 317 Market Street. HE
was good boarde',' said Ockins yes
terday, ''anl always paid me very regu-
larly every Saturday night. | don't
know where he got his meals, but he
used to 90 ont somewhere every morn
ing and didn't t come back till night.
didn't know much about him, and
Schwarz. up the street, can tell you more
about him. Mr.. Schwarz also keeps a
beer saloon. class of residence to which
Hauk seems 70 have been partial. In
deed he was German ia all his tastes IS
well as in his thrifts. Mr.. Schwarz rs.
membered hm very well. "Whv, he
was my bet boarder," he exclaimed
when told II the old fellows arrest.
''He was viii me two or three wears.
but | was dad to get rid of him when
they sent bin TO prison while ago. He
used to be wfully particular about his
food, andyas always saying that it
wasn't fit eat; but he used to drink a
good deald beer and wine, Ny other
bOarders wre mostly workingmen, who
could notafford to take more than a
glass of Der at time, but Hauk would
take ten, fteen. or twenty day. and
wine, too. Sometimes he would say nv
wine WASH good, and would send out
and get sohe that was more expensive
When the oil fellow was on the streets
he used tOgear glasses and pretend that
he couldn'tsee much, but | noticed that |
when he va PLAYING bagatelle with me
ne coul4 as well as | could. One day |
when ~ fgofr BUT we noticed him
take OF 7as coat and double one arm |
under, so that people would think that |
he didn't have but one arm o. he was |
a smart old falow. but he ALWAYS paid |
me right upbr everything, and didn't
owe me cent when he went
away. WheH he was sent to the prison
he gave me tEenty dollars to take care
Of for him, ad he always seemed to
have all the money he wanted
This last aRest is not by any means
the first time Hauk has been behind
prison bars. tat he seems as incorrigible
As Dickens Dutchman, Langheimer.
He was takenup in Centennial times for
begging arouhi the main building. and
his last trip Il the House of Correction
vas but shat time ago. He always
'eturns to the old business, however,
md by a stric attention to duty, if so it
nay be called.has probably now amassed
enough to keep him in comfort for the
est of his life, if he were willing to rest.
lie does not sem to be miser, as beg
,ars are so apt to be, but has taken to
he business simply because it appears
o bring in more money with less exer-
ion than an honest calling. PhitadeG-
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