Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-04-28
WAREHOUSE YARNS.


kicnty OF MHtexiet 70 UA<e Heuk-Lh@
Reasons s,ftsn psm~stie xroubssa wAis&
Cause rso2is . ssef~ xAsir ossds.
Eyes" said Tho manager Of ons Of tho
grcatoss OF New yorh'r storage wAso-
houses, your guess Ia quite oorrsc.. In
this bu.dncrs We SEQ the seAuy side Of
many romaneer and are confronted by not
few mysteries. All sorts OF reasons i'm.
pei people to Put their goods in storage
warehouses Death or sickness may break
up family, and tho goods come to ue.
never pcrhaps 70 DO redeemed, AZ the md
OF o year, you know, The law allows rs 70
cell II tho charges fer storage arc unpaid.
This, however, IL noa often done, az the
uhitnocs are favorable for an ultimate clear.
hnca Of all charges, wo hive people whose
house has been robbed store shcir furni-
ture, AZ they'Aro afraid 10 dwell In the
plaza any longer. People who cent pay
their renp stoyo their furniture. and poo
plo who nrc erpericncipg good times do
tho same thing ~ order TO so to Europe.
The roiinhnts Of broken families como
to US. Tho men don's often tell more than
is necessary, but tho women eivo rs overy-
thing, including oil the comments Of their
relatives and friends. Two often said that
"a ~ wan INV t'I Ailk VI nAEbAHH kNu NuHI~
moss l could write IN interesting novel
about our ogposisnccs Comedies and
tragedies Of real life drift past Us all day
long.
1.-TWO winters ago wa found TINT We
werc storing corpke. ID came 10 us In o
trunk. An cxprcssrspp brought tho trunk
and took receipt and left us his address.
Ws put the Trunk In . hfpail room on the
ninth focr and thought no more about 10
ill at tho crd Of tWouionthsn strong odor
camo from the fcufn. When wo eafno 20
the trunk, u was decided 20 break II opon,
aud tho body Of large, full bearded man
was found within, Tbs clothing was
good. but there was nothing hy which tho
man could b. identified, w notified tho
police, who went after the sxpresmap,
but no know nothing shout .hs body. Ho
had taken tic trunk fspm tho sidewalk In
front OF an apartment house on wcss
Twcnty-fourtli street. Two men had 10
there. They told him TO store tho trunk
md bring than tho receipt 40 tho apart
mont house. When no returned, no failed
TO find the mon The names they had
givon were unknown IN the apartments
house. and no never could trace them.
Tho police MISC failed 70 solve tho mystery.
Years aeo, WHOM I was young AZ this
business, We received one day lot OF very
big pnoking cases marked 'Helles' Thcy
camo norcss tho water. Heller was the
groAt magician who proceeded Hermann.
AT that time hawsa oven bottor known than
Hermann 10 now. Hb had a muRnilicont
looking wife. Known a. zandc Heller, n
fiicnd Of tho czar Of Ruaaia, have hoard.
with flno nghtr, grand blnck eyes and
blond hair think she set tho blsachsd
blond fashion. Well, those caass for Heller
remained With ur for years Keller died,
and Fo beard no claim made, 90 II was ~
last determined 10 sec what va had, md
porters were sent down In shc hassnent To
opon the boxcs
1T was d lfrcwsome place anyhow, that
immense dark basement. and this COM
bIned with tho name Of Heller, made the
men very nervous. Tho first thing thoy
saw whom They opcncd one OF tho boxes
was n Rreat rod tongue that waRged AZ
thuin. They ran and wouldn't 70 back,
and aomo Of US hoye frnn tho oflcs had 10
finish the Job OF opening mp. We found
the boxes illlod with devils and fnntastio
shapes and oil sorts OF nystic apparatus,
We Ind most OF the wizards parnrhsrnaiis
with u.s. Mira HELLER sppearsd on the
scene come tlmc aftorwnro and took all
the goods, but most OF Heilor'sesorets had
died with him, SO don's suppose they
wore very much use.
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waa aittine oyss ,ksrI crvi,s AZ haa
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health Ana had p,orad ~ fsrn,try, \, hc-
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