San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-19
ghe Daily Eight.
SATURDAY, JANUARY. 10. 1889.
THE LITTLE DOCTOR.
= He was a Stranger and he Tool
Us In"

Advices from Piedras Negras,
Mexico say that little doctor has
recently arrived in that city, and has
located there. He has filed his "di-
ploman in the alcalde's Office and is
practicing medicine, and he blushing-
ly admits that he can cure all diseases
incidental to humanity. This doctor is
of small stature, wears gold specta-
Giles, and is dressed in shabby, gen.
teel way, but one thing Is more con-
spicuous than all the rest. He wears
not a white, dingy stove pipe hat,
ornamented by a grease covering
black band, but huge Mexican SOM
brero that seems to cover him, and
the boys there use the old gag Oh
HIM "come out of that hat; l know
yer by yer boots"-in its Mexican
form.
This little doctor is none other than
DIR. Paumgartner, who struck this
city about the time that Barnum's
circus arrived, but it is only fair to
say that he was not exhibited there.
Barnum had not seen him, or he
might have had that deserved honor.
He sought the counsel of a well known
druggist, saying that he was
a poor compatriot-a Hungarian-who
had been unfortunate. He was broke,
he added, but he had rich wife in
New York, and family, and he would
get money as soon as he could commu
nicate with her. He showed diplo-
ma which he alleged came from the
Imperial Medical college, at Vienna,
and mentioned among his references
Herr Jacoby and other distinguished
doctors in New York. The druggist
took pity upon him, guaranteed his
board, and set him up in his business
by furnishing an office for
him on Alamo plaza and paying
his advertising bills. The little
doctor, however, wanted the earth
from the druggist and was migrate
full. The druggist soon discovered
that the doctor was mere charletan,
that his stories of money behind new
er were realized, and as the result he
wisely cut loose from his protege.
The little doctor was frequent WIS.,
itor to Schools saloon, especially at
lunch times, and there made the &C
quaintance of well known Bohe-
milan painter. With the druggist
he was Hungarian, to the
painter he was Bohemian,
and he seemed to have been all
things to all men. He told the paint
er a sad story, and the kind hearted
painter believed him. He wanted
signs on credit, these the painter
gave him; then he wanted more furni-
ture for his office and the painter
stood security for it, but somehow or
other the furniture found its way to
the apartments of a lady inamOrata
who was public singer. The
painter has his dinner sent daily
to his store, the doctor always
called at dinner time, and shared
the painters meal. The painter
has a daughter and the doctor had
his eye upon her but fortunately the
father was too wise to allow any in
timacy between them. The doctor
wanted more furniture for his little
song BIRD, got it under false pretense,
but the furniture dealer was sharp
and cried "mOney or arrest" and he
got the money. In the interval the
doctor did little business, took out
teeth of several individuals on the
pretense of putting in new teeth with
out plates and his tOOthless victims
now walk the street. Other equally
sharp practices are reported.
The doctor was constant and
regular visitor at the paviliOns in
which his inamOrata sang, and in
way that was not dignified to either
him or his profession, until he was or
dered out. He was, however, a mash
err, and thought that every woman
must submit to his fascination. In a
weak and evil moment he came to the
conclusion that the wife of the pro-
prietOr was in love with him, and had
evil designs upon him, and he wrote
an indecent, libellOus and insulting
letter to her husband. OF course the
whole idea came from his perverted
brain, and the lady and her husband
had him arrested. Then he
appealed to Mr.. l.. Orynski
and got him, as a brother "POle,"
and another to be his bondsman.
When the case was called the little
doctor failed to appear, and his bonds
men are required to pay $500 as the
price of their confidence in humanity.
The little doctor had left for the
more congenial and safer climate of
Mexico without saying "good-bye" to
his friends, or paying the many little
bills he owed in the city. Soon after
MS sluger-lndLnoIdCd lolO III Uho S'ilo
place and their chilling and cooling"
is now done in that salubrious eli
mate.
1t has been found that the diploma
he had in Austria was from an irres-
ponsible college and purchasable for
fees, and that Herr Jacoby and others
referred to know nothing of MIN.
Warrants are out here for his ar
rest, and Sheriff Cooke, of Maverick
county has instruction TO arrest him