Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1885-02-04
SUITORS GONE ASTRAY.
Studies from Life.

SUITORS GONE ASTRAY.
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 Mr..
Adolphus Hcintzlemann, 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 a strongly marked Teutonic face,
surrounded bya tumbled mass of grizzly
hair and beard, dressed in 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 a flint, and his
dark eyes CLEAN from under shaggy
brows 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.
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
eau cs to such hands, if outward APP
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.. Heintzlemann is not so fortunate
Us to bear vicariously the burden of liti-
CATION, with the ultimate certainty of
fees TO tighten the load He is, or rather
was, n sutton himself, and his errand
now is to forward the interests of his
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 adjUdicatG these many years.
His case is a sufficiently sad one.
Years ago he was clever and success
full inventor; and to-day, in all likeli-
hood, the fruits of his genius are in
active use by hundreds who do not know,
nor would be interested in knowing,
that the inventive faculty which is the
means of serving their convenience or
augmcnting their wealth has lost its
power; and that tho facile brain to
which they arc so much indebted is
cclipsed forever under the dark shadow
of insanity. With the proverbial bad
fortune of his kind, he sowed and others
rcaped; he laborcd and they entered
into his labors. On one Inflated day he
brought an action To recover possession
of valuable patent, for which he
claimed not to have received the stipu-
lated compensation. The equities may
have been in his favor. Who knows?
But the law was against him. His case
was tried and an adverse verdict rem
dered. He appealed, and the appeal
was decided In his opponents favor.
Then came the end of things for him.
He went mad. Nor was it wonderful
that he should do so. AS the
gcnia! Autocrat says, somewhere
In those inimitabl essays oil
HIS Insanity is often the logic of an
| accurate mind overtasked. Good menta
machinery ought to break its own
wheels and levers if anything is thrust
among them suddenly which tends tc
| stop them or reverse their motion.
| weak mind does not accumulate fore,
enough to hurt ITSELF stupidity OTTER
saves man from going mad"
AT all events, stupidity did not say,
Mr.. Heintzlemann. His wrongs, rea
or imagined, upset the delicate balanc,
of his mind, and left in chaos what once
was coherent and coordinate. TIL,
Il Co. l. - \. &.
reported in the published Law Report,
| of the State.
His delusion assumes no violent o.
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, tn,
adverse decision will be reversed O
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:
"Mr. Clerk, haf you put mine case Of
the calendar to-dayp"
mo, Mr.. Hcintzlemann, the clerl
Invariably replies, ait / not on to
day."
| "why haf you notp' he asks, great
surprised.
1--WE hadn't room for it to-day"
"Can j see the ChudgeP''
"No, he's busy"
"Then," he continues, "can my me
ton make today"
"No, il is not motion day."
THAT makes no different" say
Mr.. Heintzlemann, with a wave of tn
band. Until my case is decided ther
Is no court, no Chudge, no anything.
This formula gone through. he turn
to tho officer in charge, gravely select
paper from the bundle, hands it owe
With the strict injunction that II be Cal
rled Immediately TO the Judge, ant
tremendously saluting all present, d,
parts in the confident assurance ths
the morrow will find his case on the ca
cndar, and the court in readiness to prt
coed with the argument Of his long-d'
laycd Motion.
The court officers deal very gel
cy with MIR. Hcintzlcmann. II
Is privileged character. Accu
toned as they are to maxim
short work of the army of cranks WI
periodically disturb the peace or ol
kfuct the wheels Of justice with the
yagaries, they still have a tender sp'
, In tboir hearts for him, and are new,
tbo busy TO answer his inquiries respcc
Ing the mqmehtous suit, or TO comic
him With the ASSURANCE that some di
his mdch-hopcd-for Qualification WI
be granted,
70 Mr., Hointzlemann's pind, all la,
order, Np6rty apd progress ceased wh'
. tho obnoxious Judgment was pr