Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-12-30
RAISING THE WIND.
How a Young English Arissocrat Lived on
His Frieuda.

Nv" " Acohk EnSten aft.toCfut hiNe0 ON
His Friends.
Arthur Glynn Bigge. . young Engihhman. .
cousin OF Lord wolverton and the son OF lieu
tenant colonel in the English army. was held in
$1,000 bail a charge Of theft in the Tombs
police court in New York Wednesday morning.
The charge Was brought by Algernon Black
wood, a son Of Sir Arthur lakewood, the Sec
Rotary OF the London post Office and a cousin Of
Lord Dufferin
Mr.. Blackwood's father. Sir Arthur Black
wood. Is known all over England Beauty"
Lakewood. In his guardsman days he was
considered the handsomest man in England.
AT the present time he is one OF the best known
evangeists in London and devo,es the bulk Of
his fortune to religious work
| Johann X. Paw. an English actor, and
| Lynnewood Palmer, the artist, were also in
court to press the charges of forgery and theft
against Bigge, but ppon his admission Of his
Gnilt they decided % press one charge only.
r. ii. Sothern, the actor, is another victim OF
| Bgges wiles, and he is also said to have abused
the confidence of August Belmont and Richard
Harding Davis Bigge, who Is a fine looking
| fellow, with excellent tenor voice. has been
cutting wide swath in this country for the last
| eight years. Until this summer he confined his
| operations TO the west.
| Mr.. Blackwood in court showed a confession
in Bigge's handwriting. in which Bigge ad-
| AotSlnk CDtCk on j. n. laOW Tor
on which he had tried 10 obtain money from L.
II. Sothern. Bigge evidently regarded Mr..
Sothern as the most gullible OF his acouaint-
ances, as he had previously obtained $40 from
hlm on forged check Of Lynnewood Pslmers.
| This other check Mr. Sothern refused TO pay
ana told Bigge that he was BLACKBOARD and
would have nothing more to do with him. MIR.
Davis washed his hands OF Bigge at about the
| same time.
HOW BrGar RAISED THE WIND
In court this morning Mr.. Lakewood told
the story of his experience of Bigge.
| II forgave Bigge three times" said Mr..
| Backwood. land | should not have appeared
against HIM now if, beside robbing me, he had
not played me SO many scurvy tricks l met
him last September at acricket match on Staten
| Island We were fellow countrymen and
took fancy to him. When he told me that he
was dead broke asked him 10 come home and
stop with me at my room at No. IL East 18th
| street After that he STAYED there with me
permanently. / was taken dangerously i'll two
| or three DAYS after that. Bigge was awfully
decent TO me then. He nursed me, and while
was waiting for a remittance from home he
lent me some money Of his own.
THE next week. when / was on thebroad Of
my back, unable TO stir my father sent me SIG.
| | paid Bigge back what owed him and after
had paid my board bill and settled with the
doctor had $50 left. Bigge had just met
| Pauline Markham. and he was raying about her
| ell the time. That night he came in and went
10 the drawer where my money was. He said:
| L m only going to take dollar. old man.. /
said all right He went out aud did not turn
NJ again for three days
ALL TEE MONEY TAKEN.
The next morning found that every penny
Of my money was gone. I hadn't a blessed
cent with which to buy my medicine. Bigge
came back three DAYS later. He was very re-
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spe Mt it all on Markham. He begged me TO
| forgive him and to give him another chance.
| did so finally. My friend. Mr.. PAW turned
up two or three days later, and one morning he
and Bgge went down stairs to where our trunks
were stored to get some things. Pauw went
away the next day, and on the following Sun
day found a scrap of paper lying on top Of
| the waste-paper basket
''On this bit of paper nv chum's name, J. K
PAW. was written. l saw in a moment that
the writing was Bigge's, not Pauw's. Mr.. Grant
| Stewart OF Rose Coghlans company was with
me at the time. We both smelt a rat at about
the same moment. We turned the waste-paper
basket upside down. and after an hours hard
| work. we managed to piece the following letter
| together. 1t was dated Toronto and purported
| TO come from an old chum of mine there. II
began:
| Dear Paw: am sorry TO hear that poor
Algy has been so ill. and il went on to say that
he inclosed a check TO help me raise the wind a
| Dr. We found the scraps OF the check In the
| waste paper basket, too.
Il got Stewart to stay with me that night for
l was so weak that | was really afraid to face
| Bigge alone. Bigge came in about 10 o'clock.
We confronted him with the papers and be
broke down and cried like baby, got on his
knees and begged me TO give him another
| chance. got NV back against the door and
then told him that would not prosecute him
on one condition. and that was that he at once
sit down and write me confession of the for
gerry. He did SO, and Grant Stewart and
signed the paper witnesses. The next night
when was alone with him again, woke up in
the middle of the night and found him leaning
over me. He was evidently trying to feel unter
my pillow to see if the paper was there.
| EVEN STOLE THE STAMPS.
Meanwhile I could not understand why
did not hear more frequently from my people
at home. They knew of nv dangerous illness
and couldn't imagine why they did not write.
| / solved the mystery the other morning and il
was this discovery more than anything else
| that determined me TO bring Bigge TO book
Bigge had a gentle habit of wearing all nv
clothes while was laid up; and while | was un-
able to walk about he used to mail all my letters
| for me.
1.-The other morning in the pocket Of an old
| coat found all tine letters that / had sent TO
! my father, mother and sisters since / was i'll
| They we're all open, and Bigge had even gone
SO far as to steal the stamps off of the enyel-
! opes. After that PAW and l decided that il
was about time TO bring Bigge up short. Bigge
broke open our trunks down stairs and pawned
every blessed thing that was in them. When
was able to sit up and go out for a short walk
| found that even nv oyercoat was in hook"
| Bigge arrested on Sth avenue Tuesday
night outside OF a saloon. In court yesterday
morning he was sullen and nonchalant He
always sports an eyeglass, and yesterday it was
as much in evidence as ever.