Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-07-13
FROM AFFLuExCE 70 DEATH.

PHILADELPHIA pa June 19.
"A pale and emaciated young man
barely able to stand alone, was
led from his cell at the Eas-
tern Penitentiary a few days ago
and taken to the hospital to die.
He was supported on each side by
a keeper, and as the trio slowly
paced the long corridor there was
something in the appearance of
the young man calculated to at
tract attention. His countenance
was not that usually seen in the
criminal classes. There was an
air Of refinement about him, and
he sighed heavily as he gazed on
the blue sky Is he and his supports
e,s went ever the narrow strip of
ground from tho cells to the place
of resting for the sick. The man
was a living enigma. His true
name is known to but one person
in this country, and after his ad-
mission to the hospital with what
he Doctor pronounced typhoid
pneumonia.
While he yet fingered one of
the attendants asked him if he
could not write to his relatives
or friends, and apprise them Of
his illness. Il have none replied
the poor fellow, and as he began
TO weep, be muttered:
Il am alone in the world He
asked for pencil and paper, and
started to write a letter. He be.
gan with: Dear Father Then
followed a few words, but the
epistle was never finished. Tine
task was more than the dying
man could accomplish. He ex-
PRED with the paper clutched in
his hand. Some days after the
decease of the young man q wells
known thief dropped in the Office
of the Inspectors, and said be un.
derstood so>and-so was dead.
sYes,' was the answer. Then
the thief told q romantic story of
the wild career OF the young
man. The fellow came to the
United States in 1876 to see the
Centennial shox and see the
country. He was well provided
with funds, aud having no one to
restrain him he ran the full course
of q wild and riotous career.
Fast horses, fast men and still
faster women made his dollars fly
until he found himself towards
the close of the exhibition reduced
in finances. Two or three times
he wrote to his father, who
promptly RENTED funds, and who
wrote . letter full Of tenderness
and regard, in which the son was
kindly warned to take care of the
money and beware Of bad COM
pany. He needed not the admon.
ition of the parent, and fell in
With . gang Of thieves.
Correspondence with homo
ceased. The young man destroy
all traces Of his family and started
on the down grade. He was at
last detected in . big scheme Of
forgery; tried in the Dauphin
County Court and sent to the
Eastern Penitentiary for 1--WE
years. He was too proud to ap-
prise his father Of what had hap
pened, and instead Of telling thu
truth he wrote = letter to his par
emit saying hs would not b heard
from for ct least ave years.
Il am tired Of the United State'
| and want to 80 the world. ! an
going to Australia, 90 do not wor
~ about me- 10 what the poo
fellow said in his letter. Hi
trip around the world consisted
| in pacing the bare door Of : II
cell in the penitentiary, and tn
deludsd fathsr - in ignorence Q
the fate Of his con. The fAthe
/ lie one Of the officers Of The Pea
body Bank in London, England
| and 10 : gentleman OF wealth an
h;,h sr,eial noniki0n.