The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-05-23

The Horrible Story That is Told
OF a Wealthy Family Near
Cincinnati.

Charles Dickens, in his Tale of Two
Cities" tells OF the doctor of Beauvis, how
he suddenly disappeared from the haunts
OF mer and none but those conversant
with the facts knew whether he was deal
or alive; how he, after his imprisonment
III the tower, for none knew what, was
kept IN d solitary room because of his hav-
ing lost all control over his faculties by
his confinement. \ case similar in
many ways To the confinement in the soi;-
tary room l. >al,i 10 exist within the cor
porate iiniit> oi Cincinnati Accorlins
u the statement OF creditable witnesses,
there lives in handsome mansion oy,
Mount Lookout Il man wealthy IN this
worlds gond>, surrounded by all that
wealth can bring him The father OF this
famous man, now ever 80 wears of age, Il
is reputed, has tor the past twenty wears,
been confined i'm the cellar of his sons resi-
dsnce The old man il stone blind, prob
ably from his long confinement in the dar.
cellar. Why he is kept there no one
knows. except. as rumor has it, that his
sons wife bears him luminosity from some
cause. old ami iniirm though he is, this
old man is but scantily clad, is led on the
leaving> of the table, served To him In all
be fed, and Us a return for what he gets il
compelled 70 chop all the kindling-wood
for the immense house. There, in the dar2s,
damp cellar. with barely clothes enough
to- keep him warm, bare-footed and bare
headed, this old man SubSists on what biz
can get-the scraps from the kitchen and
oftentimes he does not even get that. He
being blind, cannot go out of doors to re
L., l. III.
1t is related that last winter, when the
snow lay on the ground and the thermom-
eter Indicated a temperature that would
almost freeze the marrow in a thickly-clad
mans bones, the old man went out OF doors,
and OF course could not lind his wav 10
the clubhouse. When one of the servants
volunteered To- show him the way, his
daughter-in-l-w said NO, let him find
his way it will do the old devil good 10
stand in the snow awhile"
Another time, when some of the servants
were eating a meal in the kitchen, the old
man came To- the top OF the cellar stairs,
and said he was hungry. Upon this the
daughter-in-law ridiculed him, and, closing
the door on the old mans head, pushed
him down the stairs, saying he could have
nothing to eat because OF his asking for it.
He has no bed on which TO sleeps such as
man of his years should have, but IS
given an old hard mat,ress-no pillow, and
scarcely any covering-in the laundry,
which is, from the nature OF the work
done there, damp and cold at times. Never
but once since his confinement began has
he been permitted to GO outside the yard,
and that was when his grandson, who is
very bitter in his denunciation of the man.
ner in which his grandfather is treated,
gave him S25 with which to take him 10
some relatives in Tennessee. The grand
son did not know that the old man was So
blind, and let him go alone to the river,
where he took boat going up instead of
down. When the old man finally discOv-
cred his mistake he jumped overheard, but
was rescued and sent back to this city, and
his grandson hearing of il took him back
to Mount Lookout. IL is asserted by some
who are acquainted with the facts, and
whom a Gazette reporter talked with
last night. that his treatment is something
terrible, and especially in the house of his
own son, who is, so TO speak, rolling in
wealth.