The evening world., 1894-08-06
On a Prospective Fortune Young
Parsons Lived Like a Lord.
Boarded, Drank and Borrowed
Money a. Aug. r. CIaussen's.
Insisted on Marrying Pretty Sadie
Dunn and Then Disappeared.


ment, the largest white straw sailor ba
In the market worn on the back of hi.
head. cane and walk which is describe
like that CT duck. he may know tina
1t Is Willie C. Parsons.
IT the finder will take Willie around
to the saloon Of Aug F. Claussen, at the
corner Of One Hundred and Eighteent
street and Eighth avenue he will BE-
suitably rewarded and have the enjoy.
ment Of seeing Willie kicked througD
the fan-light by Papa Claussen.
Willie Is wanted" to settle for the
good time he has had at the expense OF
Mr. Ciaussen and many others In that
part of Harlem, and while Willie did no
do anything So far as discoverable thai
| was actually criminal, he played game
OF small rascality that deserves punish.
| He turned up at Claussen's four weeks
ago. and took room and board with the
family. He was respectable looking and
OF good manners. He explained that he
| was an American born In Havana, where
an aunt had jus, died and left him $50,
| 600. payable the next week. when ne
| would be twenty -one years old.
| he told this with SO much corroborative
detail and in such refined. matter of
fact way that 1t would have been bar
barous to have refused him small line
! of credit.
Claussen has, among other good things
| of this. word, two pretty and smart
grown daughters, Annie and May. They
are very hght-hearted and merry young
girls, and they have young friend Just
like them, Sadie Dunn, of WILLIAMSBURG
Sadie comes over to see them once in u
| while. and rooms with Annie overnight
on these visits.
Two nights after willie's arrival. Sadie
was over and with Annie and May and
other young people We're having a good
time in the TRUE Blue ROOM" pretty
blue chamber behind the, saloon, where
bite and drop in sec.usion. Wiaie came
in and instantly demanded an introduc-
| ton to Sadie.
a rapid cross-ekamlnstlon he learned
that She was heart whole and fancy free,
and then declared his intention to marry
her Just as soon as he got his inheritance,
Willie was Always swift, direct and dra-
matte In all his methods.
| Sadie fept coming over little more
da al time a She aP Kind ~ q liked I hin re
she said, and fellow with $4,000 ISM
| always easy to get.
Fs .ad III, The xnS %sy sad ssS Sskss
Evening World" reporter about II this
Willie was a little BIT Off"
just then. "You know he's plumb
Now, May, maybe he's not so bad as
Who saw him said he was mixed.
Mixed. you know. is the polite way Of
saying that persons taking no good
a and 1h ,ia, sort of thing and he was an
.cHe most surely could lie a lot" in.
dorsed s May. But he was clever; tor .r,,
most anything under the sun, and we
tried to call him down. He said he could
play the violin and we got one for him,
a bicycle. We stuck him upon one and
he rode It. He said he could talk Cninee.
We took him down to laupdry, and he
haS oh G Rs w eofsG s wt chi ensa n
and she liked him well enough but she
laid the law down to him." resumed An
You be, she did" interrupted May;
~ marry YOU: No dough, no marry.
Some Of Willie's a: ,rous antics during
these halcyon days seem to bear out the
opinion OF the girls lat he was not al
together resp sSnd; lie repeatedly
The .Claussen g"s at these, times
amused themselves ~ handing him an
old unloaded pistol and advising him to
not to de IN The me house onee when
particularly wounded by Sadie's heart
lessness he sat down and drew. up his
last win and testament, WHICH he gave
70 Claussens son. Charley. Here Is the
| instrument:
| NEW YORK. July 20, 1874
l. william G: Parsons. beausath my fortune to
8. Dunn. OF 500 briggs avenue. Williamsburg.
! Brooklyn. otherwise known as my intended wife.
WILLIAM C. PARSONS.
| A.D.
Meanwhile he hung around Claussen's
saloon buying drinks for himself on
| promising frpunpntere
of the place, who thought him very &C.
centric but open-hearted young fellow
all sorts Of good times when he got his
money.
The situation finally narrowed down to
point when he had to make some show
Of his financial boasts. Last Monday
Sadie tod him e get MS money %SS or sus
came back In an hour with a check fol
5000 drawn In school-boy hand, OF
the Southern National Bank, payable tc
himself and signed with the name Of
Willie explained that Hahn was his
lawyer and that was the check for his
Inheritance. 1t having cost 5000 to set
The wedding was arranged for las,
Tuesday, evening, Aug. 2. Willie was
gayety, itself and said that he, would
Sadie was willing and made prepare.
tons II was to be a plain wedding u
| travelling costume, IOliOWe0 Dy a Ilttlt
supper and music at Claussen's.
Thursday morning Willie handed his
precious check to Mr.. Claussen for safe.
keeping. and borrowed S, which com
piesed a total debt to the old gentleman
OF 57 He went to the Hamilton Ma
tlonal Bank and entered his signature
as a prospective depositor. Then he
called upon Father Coogan, on One Hun
drcd and Eighteenth street, and got his
promise 10 perform the ceremony. lie
went to neighboring restaurant and
ordered "A dinner. He hired band OF
three pieces, and then disappeared.
That Is the last the Claussens or any
body else who will report on the matter,
have seen OF Willie.
| A stupid situation presented itself for
the musicians and the restaurant people
that night, but old man Claussen only
laughed. As for Sadie che went off TO
bed with Annie, remarking only:
II knew that fellow was "a liar and a
lunatic from the beginning"
Willie left lot of other small debts
I'm that Harlem neighborhood. He owes
the Italian bootblack on the corner for
about IS worth OF shines, and the old fell
lou iS tnCnnSOla BILE
While Willie was absent Thursday
morning Papa Claussen concluded to in
vestigate that check. He rook Off his
apron. put on his hat ana coat and went
down 10 the Southern National Bank.
He passed the check through the
wicket TO the cashier
"Well. SIR" said Claussen this morn
Ing, II knew from the jump ! was In
trollble. The cashier looked at the