Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-09-27
SUITORS GONE ASTRAY.
Studies from Life.

studies from Life.
The English Court of Chancery would
seem incomplete without little Miss
Elite and the Man from Shropshire. So
would the New York Supreme Court
without the person and papers of MIR.
Adolphus Heintzlemann, Chief Of the
Bar and Acknowledgement of the Human
Race. The casual visitor lettering
through the corridors of the County
Courthouse in City Hall Park is
likely to see an understood old man,
with strongly marked Teutonic face,
surrounded by 4 tumbled mass of grizzly
hair and beard, dressed i'm suit of
rusty black, and with large bundle of
papers under his arm, hurrying with
swift, nervous tread in the direction of
one or the other courtroom. The little
man S face is set like flint, and his
dark eyes CLEAN from under shaggy
hrowS with strained intentness that is
almost painful. He is in dead earnest.
He evidently has on hand business, i'm
portant business, which brooks no
delay. .-H.g--- PC -.r.. ....
The visitors mental comment prob
ably is that the man is lawyer of the
stripe of Sampson Brass, or Mr.. Pell,
''dear friend of the late Lord Chancel-
lor," Fastening to answer Ready to
the call of the calendar; and he pitieS
the clients who have committed their
causes to such hands, if outward ap-
pearances form any criterion by which
TO Judge of the measure of success at
tendant upon his advocacy. But COM
ment and sympathy are alike mis-
placed.
Mr.. Heintzlemmn is not so fortunate
as to bear vicariously the burden of liti-
CATION, with the ultimate certainty OF
ices To Tighten the load. He is, or rather
was, sutton himself, and his errand
now is to forward the interests of hi,
suit in his own proper person. For he
can not grasp the fact that his case is
no longer before the courts, but has
been res a,ljmticata these many years.
His case is a sufficiently sad one.
Years ago he was a clever and success.
full inventor; and to-day, in all likcli.
hood, the fruits of his genius are in
active use by hundreds who do not know
nos would be interested i'm knowing,
that the inventive faculty which is the
means of serving their convenience o,
augmenting their wealth has lost its
power; and that the facile brain tC
which they are so much indebted is
cclipscd forever under the dark shadow
of insanity, With the proverbial bat
fortune of his kind, he sOwed and other.
reaped; he labOrcd and they entered
into his labors. On one ill-fated day ht
brought an action to recover possession
of valuable patent, for which hi
claimed not to have received the stipu
lated compensation. The equities ma,
have been in his favor. Who knows:
But the law was against him. His cas-,
was tried and an a Verse verdict zen.
dered. He :Hpealed, and the appea
was decided iif>>s opponents favor
Then came the end of things for him
He went mad. Nor was it wonderful
that he should do so. AS the
genla! Autocrat says, somewher,
In those inimitabi ESSAYS O
his: Insanity is often the logic of ar
accurate mind overtasked. Good menta
machinery ought to break its owr
wheels and levers if anything is thrust
among them suddenly which tends t.
stop them or reverse their motion.
weak mind does not accumulate force
enough to hurt ITSELF stupidity Otter
saves man from going mad
AT all events, stupidity did not saw.
Mr. Heintzlemann. His wrongs, rea
or imagined, upset the delicate balanc,
of his mind. and left i'm chaos what once
was coherent and coordinate. The
curious may find the details of his cas-,
reported in the published Law Report.
of the State.
His delusion assumes no violent OF
repulsive form. 1t simply. consists il
the belief that his suit is still before tn,
courts, and in the conviction that event
ually, can he but obtain hearing. the
adverse decision will be reversed OF
modified. and he reinstated in his los
possessions. And so, every day. sum.
mer and winter, in season and out O.
season, he marches up to the clerk
desk, with his inseparable bundle O
papers, and courteously asks in highl,
Germanized English: = sec
''Mr. Clerk, hat you put mine case or
the calendar to-day?'' y-.s- 81
mo, Mr.. Heintzlemann.' the clerl
invariably replies, 'lt is not on to
day."
.Why hat you not?' he asks, greatly
surprised.
1--WE hadn't room for it to-day
''Can see the Chudge2" y - =
mo, he's busy .z-es =
Then" he continues, ''can l my mo
ton make to-day?"
mo, it is not motion day.
THAT makes no different" says
Mr.. Heintzlemann, with a wave of the
hand. Until my case is decided there
is no court, no Chudge, no anything
This formula gone through he turns
to the officer in charge, gravely selects
a paper from the bundle, hands it owe,
with the strict Injunction that it be car.
ried Immediately to the Judge, and,
tremendously saluting all present, de-
parts in the confident assurance that
the morrow will find his case on the cal.
endar. and the court in readiness to pro.
coed with the argument Of his (ong-de
lsyed motion, 80