St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-30
Driven From There, He Ar
rives in Minneapolis
Destitute.
He Finds Himself an Out.
cast Because Of a
Song,
And Asks The Globe to Re-
quest the Public to
Let Up.

ing his brain Tor new IDEAS, WITH poor
prospect OF success, when cold blast
of air caused him to look up. Just en-
tering the door was one of the sorrlest
specimens of humanity that his eyes
had ever rested upon. A struggling,
unkempt beard of several weeks growth
his hair, which was long and matted
and full of weeds and water grass, gave
him ferociOus appearance, especially
as his eyes glOwed with the fire of some
grievance which was slowly but surely
undermining his reason. His form was
gaunU and his clothes hung upon his
emaciated limbs in curious folds. He
had the appearance of being half
starved and of having. at some recent
date, been in the water.
The defenseless reporter was some
what startled by this scarcely human
looking appariti0n, and inyOluntarily
his hand reached for club. Then the
strange visitor spoke.
NJ ''See here, young man, don't be i'm
petuous. Give me chance. I've had
trouble enough already. Now just do a
favor for much abused piece of HUI
manity."
The reporter was touched by the
plalntive air of his visitor, and resolved
to hear the wrecks story.
''Well. what do you want?' he asked.
Il want you to write little piece for
the paper, giving me fair show and
squaring me with the world"
Whats your name"'
"McGinty."
The Aforementioned club was grasped
by the reporter and waved wildly over
the head of the intruder. But the man
did not run, and look of appealing
earnestness In the mans face caused
the reporter to restrain his murderous
hand.
That's just the way they all act. /
never do get show, IapprOach man
with story. he asks me my name and
then get a kick, a smash in the neck
or the man flies as from pestilence."
well, go ahead with your tale of
woe"
"It's fact that went down to the
bottom of the sea, but it is mistake to
say that have never been found. just
after my little mishap, concert hall
singer fixed up little rhyme on my
troubles and from that moment | was
gone. 'McGinty' caught on and be-
came favOrite joke.
when | got out of the water went
to hotel, looking little tough from
my soujourn at the bottom of the sea.
| wrote my name on the register and
called for room. The hotel clerk
E tWirled the book around, saw the name.
B / was summarily fired into the street.
LAS | went out of the door | bumped
against policeman, and, of COURSE, he
. cOllared me without word. as police
men have habit of doing. and marched
( to the station. The sergeant asked my
name and my reply brought more abuse.
j was locked up without anything 10 eat.
Before the Judge next morning | told
my name and got sixty days on the ISL
and for contempt of court. l escaped
on the way across the East river, swan
ashore and fell in with some wharf rats.
They got onto my name and again l had
to sneak.
.My troubles we're having bad effect
upon my mind, but was sane enough
to be determined to obain legal redress.
| obtained it. On the sixth floor of big
was looking. / told him my name, and
it raised such a cyclone in that room
that L was kicked down six flights OF
stairs"
Where did all this happen?"
''In New York. You may be sure that
after so many trials in the great me-
tropolis | concluded that it was no place
for me. SO | started for the West. ]
had no money and had to walk. What
l had gone through had almost wholly
destroyed my reason. gave no atten-
ton to my personal appearance. and
had never frightened up my exterior
after my disastrous trip to the bottom
of the sea. Small wonder that farmers
chased me with guns in some of the
districts through which passed. 1 did
find few kind-hearted persons, how
ever. who had never heard of McGinty,
SO that managed to live.
swell, reached Chicago, and my eX-
periences there were good deal like
those of New York No one would be-
lieve that | was McGinty. had been a
tramp, and what little reason was left
in me urged me to seek the Northwest,
where. had been told, the people were
hospitable. Again l walked, and my
recollection OF the journey stretches
away, dim vista of miles. marked by
hot water, guns, clubs, pitchfOrkS, bull
dogs, short rations and trouble.
swell, to shorten my story, struck
Minneapolis three days ago and found,
to my sorrow, the disposition to make
light of my career of mishapS had pre-
ceded me. AS l was coming into the
city met one of your fly bObs.' who
stopped me and told Inc to give an ac-
count of myself. As soon as began he
snatched me almost off my feet and
babe me come along l broke away
and was pursued. To save myself |
Jumped off one of your high bridges,
as l disappeared under the water the
officer shooting me through the ear.
Here is the hole.
my cold plunge into the Mississippi
did me good. 1t brought back some of
my scatt red senses, and / determined
to stay right here and fight it out.
have had as much trouble in Minneap-
oils as elsewhere, but thought that
rhe GLOBE would give me show to set
myself right with the public.
NOW, young fellow, want you to
state first of all that l am not dead.
have been found. was awful wet. but
am pretty well dried out. 1t was not
my best Sunday clothes that | was
dressed in when l went to the bottom
of the sea, but suit | had left over
from last winter. These are facts, and
/ want them so stated.
s'Numberless gags have been sprung
on the strength of my disappearance,
but they are all way off. | am not 60
ing to be buried at all, not just yet any
how. don't want any flowers bought
for my funeral. don't want to talk to
anybody through the telephone. don't
want to do any of those things which
have been attributed to me by heartess
jokers. 1t is my firm conviction that
the public is heartily tired of hearing
of me, and l am sure that all ask is to
be let alone. Will you fix that up for
me?"
Being assured that It would be done,
McGinty left the Office as noiselessly as
he had entered, and the reporter, look
ing at his silent watch of the night, saw
hot fO no Clnu1Ity hn