Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-09-26
RELICS OF DICKENS.
MANY QUAINT BUILDINGS MADE "a
NOUS ~ THO HcvELlsr.


localities, pooplod by tho genius Of tho
master novelist with characters moro
real to "a in some foapocts than their
present inhabitants, viii be nonresident.
Entering Lincoln'slnn.felds from Great
Queen street. turn to tho right, pause at
5s. and picture Mr. Tulkinghorn omcrg-
ing Que evening from chambers whore
lawyers DO lie mnsgota Ia nuts" I'M
agino him walking through the inn,
passing beneath It's ancient Tudor gate
way. and visiting Mr.. SnagSby, the law
nutiouor IN Cooks coutt, Cursitor street,
with Wow OF ascertaining whore Memo,
tho mysterious law wuitor, lives.
A little 20 thcVouth VI Old Builliugg,
on tho west sido Of Chmcofy lane, are
Bishopa court and Chichester Rcnts,
tho latter approached through tun-
nolcd passage alongside tho Three Tuns
public house. no tho Rents caino the
1.-TWO gentlemen, not very neat about
tho cuts nul buttona," who irHtiiutcd
porqrisiiions through the court, diycd
into the sola parlor aud wrote with
raycnOus liitio poul on tissue plpcr
"thosc sensational reports OF tho inquest
which had just bo9n held at that we'll
known and popular house of entertain
mont. the Old Soils Arms"
Soils b tho present Old Ship Tavern.
II stands NJ the head Of the court. fac
Ing II ON one sido and the wall OF Lincoln
Inn ON the other. II ~ certainly ancient
enough, and on the hrt door can atill
be scun the identical long, low room
where tho coroner presided, and where
little Swiils, the comic vocalist, pre-
scented TO the harmonic meeting his nd
mirnhlo impur nation OF that important
Official.
SO FAR Identification "a plnin sailing,
Bnt whurc wus the famous rag and bot
tie shop. Whose gin soaked proprietor
died from spontaneous combustiong Mr..
thinner, In About London with Dick
ems" Is mlont on tho subject. The writer
Of Dickens London" thinks 1t must
have stood in Bishops court hnrd by
for no other scason apparently than the
fact OF It's being "ano old, narrow. drcary.
docaying and mournful passage, just
tho pipco In which such people as tho
poor law writer and crazy Miss Flito
would have made u home"
But careful study Of every alluslon
made by Dickens 10 tho locality viii,
think. show that Mr.. Pembehon Is
probably mistaken. KroOk's shop Is
spoken Of "a lying aud being IN the
shadow Of tho wall" blinded by
tho wall" No house in Bishops
court csuctly answers 20 this dcscrip-
ton. On tho contrary. tho only
likely one NJ tho corner next to Old
Soils faces an open passageway which
leads to New square. kgooi's must
therefore b. sought FOR at Nos. and
In the Ronta NOW occupied by a
law fiat,gnorl, opposite tho Old Ship,
/ fronting tho court ON one side and ON
I the other "within u couple OF yards oll
and entirely blinded by tho wall" sc
often referred to Ia the narrative.
Miss Elite, meeting Esther Summer
son and tho wards iu chanccry ono morn
ing Ia Old square, invited them to CON,
aud wee her lodsngs. So close 10y die
rho live that, slipping out at a it'll
side gate" she stopped most uncxpect
udly In nnprrow back street. CSiar yard
leading 10 Carey street,, pat of SOM
courts and lanes Immediately outsid
tho wall OF tho inn and she was u
home. shc lodged In n garnet at TN
top ofiKrook's shop, described rs "blind
oil by tho wall Of Lincoln's Inn, whic
intercepted the light within couple o
Yards" She lived In u pretty larg
room, from which she had q glimpse O
tho roof OF Lincoln's lun hall; the ne,
ono. be Il remembered, for the old hui
is entirely shut ont from Wow by tho tai
houses in old buildings.
1t Is during tho visit that tho poo
little creature draws aside the curtai
Of tho long, low garnet window and call
attention TO number OF bird cage
hanging there, whose occupants Lad
, Jane, tho cat, "a forever striving 10 dl
} vour, crouching "on the parapct outsiG
for hours and hours" This Il conclusiy
! testimony, for no other house in oitht
, eourt-sivo the Old Ship--poss osses q
attic with an ont lido parapet, Tho VIII
, dows AFRO mostly dormers, or flush wit
, tho wall. while from no other Carr,
1 window-excopt Sol's-can glimpse
I tho old hall roof no had. This ca
5 readily be tested by standing close
. tho hall and looking through the tree
b toward Chichester Rents, whore Il
p slated top story and long, low CARR
r window Of the rag and bottle shop ms
be- identified.
In mise; .blo back room ON tho se
ond floor of this dismal abode CAPITA
1 Hawdon, alias Memo, was found dou
y by Mr.. Tull,inghon and krook-dyiu
3, by his own hands from an overdose
4 opium. 10 a hollmcd in churchyar
Q postiferous and obscene, they tako OF
dear brother here departed and low
him down foot or two On tho ste
leading to this chanelhouso Dan
II Durdon finds her mother, with Oh
2, arm creeping around bar Of the ir,
/. gate aud seeming TO embrace it," III
d spot "a rather hard to find, but walk I
IS Catherine street from the Strand, al
half way up ON the right turn into RI
roll court leading into Drury lane, "a
'e midway to the left OF this passage, is d
, approach TO the "conscCrated ground.
"a Tho little tunnel OF court is much
!. it was forty years ago But the lamp
- gone, and tho old iron gate Is not 1
b one depicted by II. X. Browne. Oh
drcn now play as best they can on {
asphalted surface OF the heinmed
)" area, whore once poor 40 saw the mort
romans OF tho stranger who had be
m EVERY good 70 lin put into the groui
b" "wergy nigh tho top.