Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-07-05
A SPREE WORTH SSO,OOO.
That's What Robert Blacker Made Out Of
a Booze in Kansas City.
Missouri.
r. VI. CamPbeII's Remarkable RelntiN" and
His Inintentionai Business Ent"r
prise 4 story that Rather
Shatter~ Frohi ibitiOn.
From sundays Edition

Alt ~ lAlt ~ w hlNliN dtNNiiAitlA' "a No''
uf this kind came under the notice of
GIuRE-RErURIIC reporter yesterday
which is 81 full of unique features and has
such an unexpected do1i0nCmCIr, that ii
will doubtless be- read with As profound id
tertst As the original narrative was listened
to by the writer. f. NJ. Campbell, the
we'll known president of the Springfield
Abstract Co. is authority for the story. and
for the truth of its every particular he
sturdlly vouches.
Robert Blacker lives in Butler county,
Ohio, on 'Paddy's Rnn," and is a man of
prominence and position. He is near rel
alive OF Mr Compbell by marriage. At
the time with which this narrative deals,
Blacker was bachelor of about 4j, thor
oughly
ONE OF THE BOYS,
but withal a keen, Shrewd and successful
business man. He had an immense stock
farm in Butler county, upon which he raised
/ large number of beef cattle, which he mar
| keted at Cincinnati and other points.
/ Blacker had one characteristic that If il had
no other merits or dement's Is at least re-
spOmSible for the existence of this article;
namely he INDUCED in occasional SpreeS.
/ As i'll everything else, Blacker'S thorough
ness Of method was apparent in his drunkS.
They were no ordinary full-at-nght-and,
cranial-hyperthOphy-i hy-in-the-morning affairs.
! He went at the problem of mebriatiOn cool
/ ly. collectedly and with a purpose in view.
During the month OF six weeks that these
Sprces usually lasted. Blacker was wholly
pictureSquely. symmetrically drunk. Whel
they were over, he usually found himself
dead broke. some distance away from home
and entirely obliviOus to what had trans
pired during the razee. Not a
RAY OF RECOLLECTION
penetrated the opaqueness of the alc0hOliZeC
past. All was as blank and meaningless t,
him As the editorial page Of Pennsylvania
paper.
At this time, As stated, Blacker was un
married, but he has since welded a Yer!
e,timable Cincinnati lady, and let it b,
hoped has ceased to let his own tears caus'
tears 10 his family.
But to hasten. Several years ago Blacke
sold several hundred head of cattle at Gin
cinnati, and, as he pocketed 81, 900 wad
the thought came like all inspiration tina
about four fingers of whisky wouldn't 2
bad. He took the quartette of digitS re
ferred 10. That settled it. In less tim,
than it takes to print an edition of papers
Blacker was in the midst of one of hi
most Illuminated drunks. II anything h,
rather eclipSed himself. The history of hi
spree would probably make very interestin.
reading, but he doesn't know any NOR,
what happened
THAN THE SHAH OF PERSIA.
As he is the only witness who plead
guilty to being present during the entir,
progress of the drunk. the details will prob
ably remain lacking till the end of time.
At all events he returned 10 conscious
ness with crash that made his head Sor,
at least something did-an found him,
sell a month older, about 50, pOore,
and located IN Kansas City. lie was a
one of the city hotels. How he got ther,
/ he hadn't the most distant notion. ii,
couldn't swear with positive knowledg,
that the architect hadn't taken him for tn,
central idea and built the hotel around him
He had nothing tn show for his time Ol
money but feeling of dissolution at the
stomach, head that was miniature Cor,
liSs engine and growing conviction that
he was a humanized version Of the ass.
YeS he had one thing else. He discovered
in his vaIise
HANDFUL. OF PRINTED BLANKS.
He smiled when he glanced these
documents over, and reflected to
I himself that he had beer.
beaten by a genteel rogue. who had the de
ceucy at least to go through show of hav-
/ ing made him an equivalent for the $500
OF thereabout, which had been blown in.
| With this green reflection he tossed the pa
| perS back in his valiSe, got shave. a
cocktail, bromide and dinner, and by
the time he got back to his stock farm in
! Ohio was himself again.
/ A year passed and the affair had gone out
/ of his mind entirely. One day he wa, sur
DriSpd and not particuIarIy DIeased at r,.-
ceiving tax bill from Kansas City. init
mating that he was expected to pay taxes
on certain real estate owned by him in that
/ tlourishing Missouri city. A few dollars
more or less was mere trllie, he argued
ana so without looking INTO the matter, he
SENT THE TREASURED CIIECk
Tor the amount and dismissed the matter
from his mind. A year later he received
another tax Dill, larger than the hrst.
/ But, d-n It, haNn I any real estate III
Kansas 'lty,' he rather profanely remarked
TO himself
Nevertheless he was man who had a
horror of debt, and 80 he mailed another
check, rejecting that peace was sweet at