The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-09-21
A Victim Of Liverpool Jack Returns
Home With Plenty Of
Money.
Fortune Frownod on Him at First,
but Later on She
Smiled.
The Happy Reuni0n Between David HAD.
kowsky and tina Brave Little wife
He Left Behind.

New YoRK, Sept. ia real Monte Csisto
has returned to this city from an enforced
exile Of nearly four years in the wilds Of
Central and South America. The story OF
his hardships, followed BY comparative
wealth, IL as strange a. fiction. He 10
David Radkowsky. who was one ct the
shanghaied victims of Liverpool Jack"
three years and nina months ago. Prior
to that time hs was 4 leather worker In q
large factory on West Thirty-third street,
and earned $25 q week. Through the fac
tory being shut down, Kadkowsky wns out
Of work. Seeing his savings %dwindling
away, he determined to find other employ
ment. He wsns to Castle Garden and there
encountered Liverpool Jack" who said
he would procure for him q good position
at 80 or 81 a day on payment to him OF .
sum Of $50. Radkowsky returned to his
nome on East Broadway. got the $bO.
told his wife he Wal going to Wash
inRton to get work and left. That was the
last seen Of him BY any n who knew him
until yesterday morning. After giving the
money to ''Liverrool Jack" R~adkowsky
was taken on board a ship then about to
sail for South America. He and about
fifty others were consigned like 90 many
cattle 70 Costa RIGA. On arriving at the
disembarking port Radkowsky, WHIT Is we'll
educated and speaks several languages,
made inquiries Of some men returning
from the place to which he was bound.
about work and wages. With ono accord
they all told him that IL he wanted to die
within a week to continue his Journey, but
if he valued his life he had better not go
further. The people were lifted and fever
very prevalent. He thought of his wife
and three children. and concluded that he
would not 20 to the fever stricken district.
Unable to pay his way back, or to obtain
work where he was, he set ont and for two
months tramped through the Central Amer
lean republics, begging enough from the
natives to keep body and soul together. At
the end of that time he got work on q COT
fec farm. about twenty five miles from
Leon, Nicaragua. He worked here until he
had saved some money. when he obtained q
Job az overseer of a lot of Indian workmen.
He made money fast by selling tobacco and
1ire water to the Indians, and soon devoted
himself exclusively to this business. In
this way it is said he massed a fortune, in
kowsky says that he was taken Ill and was
confined to bed for nearly six months.
when he spent the equivalent Of $1,000.
While he was growing rich. his wife was
having a hard time here in New York.
While she lived in East Broadway she
heard from her husband twice, but after
she was compelled to leave there through
inability to pay the rent she never heard
from him. His letters did not reach her.
She had almost given him mp for dead. A
lingering hope remained that some day he
would return, and she worked bravely to
keep her children with her. She was finally
compelled to nave the Oldest two commit
ted by the justice at Essex Market court to
the Deborah Home for Boys. She kept the
baby with her, sleeping in cellars or wher-
ever she could. When she got work in .
cloak factory she was obliged to put the
baby away also. Yesterday morning she
was returning from visiting her children in
the home, when she saw her husband
and rushed into his arms. He had
been looking for her, and was
directed by some of their old %neighbors to
her home and vas on the way there when
they met. Her Joy was uncomfortable.
She fairly screamed for joy. and became
hysterical. She is a comedy little woman,
and r~eioices that she had a clean and tidy
home, although only two rooms, to welcome
her husband to. She had earned Sc a week
making cloaks. but her husband says she
will not work any more. He brought with
him a trunk, which his wife pointed out
with pride and said it was we'll filled.
R~adkowsky refused to mention the
amount of his wealth. He has a large COL
lection of coins, trinkets and curios. He
will take steps at once to get his children
RQaiu.