Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-01-16
IA STRANGE STORY.
Career Of Charles Harrington More
Remarkable than Romance,
LIFE THAT mAsBEES FULL OF WOE
Claims 10 Have Been Slugged by an
Unknown footpad-llls Feet
Badly Frozen.

A story stranger than which few
have ever been chroulclcI In the col
umns o, local newspaper was related
10 a reporter today by man whose
career, mcaaurci by the milestones Of
lie, has been considerably more than
half anu probably almost completely
exhausted.
The narrative, n correct, again
proves the ofl-iomonaltatOd saying
that truth 10 stranger than fiction. IL
not, it makes Of the man who told %,
under circumstances indeed fad, o.
ptuvaricat5r Of the supcflAtiycly mon.
umuntal class. For thc last thiriy'slX
hours It seems no has been under The
special watch 90 .ho police and muui.
cipal detectives, aud for twO.thifis Of
that period has received attention at
the hando OF DR.. Daily, the city ply.
aiCian.
A NEWS man by chance heard Of
| bis case uuu Immediately commenced
uu invest CATION. The man was
| found iu room no. Q 90 the Luuiylllg
! House on Second south street, a
| small, foul smelling apartment with
| four beds ln 10. Ia Une Of these lay iur
/ central figure OF tuis article with uu-
Enmpt huir aud beard, with % bruised,
swollen ana SCARED face aud arm uul
frozen feet Fwnthud iu huninges and
enlarged 10 AlMgs, twice iLuir normal
Size.
10 the reporter hp gave an account
! of hiB troubles which uu said hU had
| told tue detectives uu3 police while
thUy shook thuir heads us though thuy
doubted tho truth Oi hIs FlaitmuHtg.
| The NEWS man was not surprised 10
hear OF the miEgiyings Of the officers
because the story seemed 90 luch ihu
essential elements which are required
90 carry conviction 90 the mind u the
heater. This 30 90 substance what he
raid iu answer ~ numcIsus searching
qutsiOul
con Sunday evening lat about o
0'cloCE, 4 Lott the Luaiyillo House,
where I have been T01miug since
October, for stroll about tho clty-u
custom that has bacu common with
me. j walked out on Second South 90
Seventh 4aBt ~ that point 1 halted
Tor little while aud tuUn Bauu,vTUI
4 turned the corner ". enc OF those
stttvtf--Which one 1 can't remember
1 received heavy blow on the right
arm and another on tho side OF tue
head, Then i have no recollection Of
any other occurrence until recovered
consciousness under tue band stand iu
| Liberty Park, several hundred feet,
as / remember from where 4 was
struck down. How I got there have
not the slightest idea. My face was
covered with blood and one
OF my arms aud both u
my feet were very numb. /
got up aud finally made my way out
uf tho park 10 o house In the neighbOT.
hood. woke the people up aud
begged drink OF water. They said l
was either drunk ora tramp AID that
! liI diuu't clear out they would suud
for the police ana have me arrested.
told them i didu't care very much
what became Of me a. was 10 badly
used up. The man Of the house, how
ever, gave me q drink aud then told
me Il was a quarter % l O'Clock, / Of
course left aud got buok.tO my room
alb ut 4OiclOck IN the morning, after
having laid down on the side
walk several times 20 Test. / remained
day forenoon 1 came 90 enough to
know was IN bad condition and
sent one Of the boys out Tor police
man who brought or sent Dr. Daily
here 10 wait on me. That IL all /
knOw,n
Asked az TO whether no thought he
had been robbed and he replied that he
knew no bad not as he had but five
cents with him and ON regalning
Beneihllity that was still iu his pocket.
But he believed robbery was the iu-
tenliOn OF his assnilnnt. Ills idea was
that he had been "gOno thfUughn and
handled more severely than he other
wire would have been because nothing
, II value was fouad Ia his p0Ckels. Ito
declared that he had not been drinking
and that his troubles were not due to
dissipation, further claiming that he
had never drank two gallons Of liquor
In his life. In subslautialiOn Uf tui8
statement man who stood In o little
sToupof listeners, said! 81 believe
that IL correct, az 1 have known him
for two years and never during that
period, / thinH, has he touched
liquor OF any kind,n
Catechised as TO his anlecedouts he
continued IN the following strain from
! WHICH nc AAAltA " NMNlNN OF hINNk
down under the olOseBt CrO6s.quos-
, tioninR: "My name n Charles Har-
ringtOu and / am % years OF age, /
am naive OF Detroit, Michigan, ana
am tho father Of eleven children.
Three OF them died prior 10 thirteen
years age, two OF them IN the great
Chicago iire when l was burned out
VI house and home. In thb COnhagTa-
ton / Lost also a cabinet and furniture
establishment IA which / employed
large number OF men aud which 1 had
Insured for 100000, but OF which /
failed 10 get one cent. / mai valuable
property ia Philadelphia and New
York, however, but IN time that was
also wasted away. My wife was
afflicted with cancer and consumption,
discusses that Huvmud 20 have boon
hereditary. We Travelled ali over tue
United States and lived IN California
two VI three timeF. We passed. through
Utah the Not limo tweuly'n,nD years
ago. Iul57J.7 we lived In London,
ami for ten months my wife Whi u
patient at Guys hospital where she
received the constant attention " nur
mpjesty the quoug'5 physicians. 1
sleut a fortune In hopes OF
nor recovery. But II was not
10 ho and we came back
10 this cuuutry and went direct 30 Laa
. | A uuaIfg "a hero NV wife died, lhOu /