Sunday morning globe., 1901-11-17

81 500. every penny of which he owed
me in equity and justice inasmuch
as to the championship Of his daugh'
ter | was mainly indebted for my CON
viction and material losses, besides
and actual business, both In
and advertisements.
| explained to Mr.. Joyce that oy /
my wife holding Arlington she coulu
raise her children and in a few years |
be independent. ! offered him my Gay |
street property, on which there was a |
first mortgage for $4,000 and in addl- |
tlon | agreed to pay him in cash Sz,UoV'
thus leaving the Gay street property
q stone front house on a 5OXl2o toot
lot in the centre Of the city-standing
him the sum Of Sl3,5OO. 1t had cost me
$4,000. including a brick building
had erected In the rear Of and the tull
width of the lot as a printing ohce.
No he wanted the Arlington proper
ty sold and my wife could move into
the city and run a boarding house,
The cold brutality of this proposal
nearly unnamed me- Here was the
man whom. i'm a spirit Of sincere
friendship l had risked my paying
newspaper property for, by advocating
the cause of his daughter in her sue
cessful efforts to divorce her husband
and by which my annual income was
depleted several thousand dollars in
having done So proposing that the
lady he was so anxious to accept
invitations to his dinners at his
Broad street mansion should socially
descend to keeping a boarding house
And to her husband, too, to whom he
SEVEN-GLOBE. o.. .. o.. O.. ..,.''
had been accustomed to observe that
deferential respect which intellectual
superiority commands, even from mil
lionaires. He knew. as | did, that
my wife was as in adapted to running
a boarding house as he was to running
locomotive, while on the contrary
dairy farming was congenial work,
and an enterprise which owing to her
practical knowledge and early train
ing she could and did successfully con-
duct
How did / become indebted to Mr.
joyce i'm the sum Of $I5OO2 After
my arrest and the exhaustion OF my
bank account / found il necessary to
raise more money for the expenses OF
my trial My attorney, General Powell
suggested Mr.. Joyce as being under
deep obi cations to me and he volun-
teered to secure a loan. The loan was
effected through Samuel +. Black,
then an attorney in General Powell's
Office and subsequently Mayor of Col
umbus. Mr.. Blacks name appeared
in the mortgage as loaning the money
and as he was then an obscure attor-
ney no comment was excited by the
| transaction, whereas If Mr. Joyces
name was known in the matter the
town would be on nre and Rome
would rock on her seven hills as
| Mr.. joyce was the leading Catholic ESQ
] far as wealth and social position VENT
| i'm Columbus, and the A. p. AS were
/ kindly and gratitutiously attending to
my affairs just at this period. In fact
II have been singularly fortunate all
my life. from boyhOod up in attracting
| the attention and subsequent hostility
of every religious bigot and hypocrite
! otherwise unemployed or disengaged
/ and this irrespective of creed, class OF
/ color. [ believe this has already been
noted I'm these papers. General Powell
/ effected the loan and cOnscientiOusly
superintended its expenditure to the
/ last penny He managed to rake in al
most $4,000 Of it himself thus follow
/ ing Mr.. Joyce's sage advice to pluck
the sparrows, but leave the robins
alone" And I was a helpless tom
| sparrow just then
Arlington had cost me I'm the neigh
/ borhood of S11OO0-my wife figured If
much more, but as nearly as / could
estimate I had expended about that
. nj n a
/ TO Mr.. JOyCe's judgment and sympa
thy had failed I inquired If he knew OF
any prospective purchaser He did
Of course. Mr.. Cass Paris would cal
on me and make an offer Mr. Paris
subsequently called and offered $4,000
! declined this sum as being insufi
cient to cover Mr.. Joyce's mortgage
Further negotiations and peremptor!
notification or significant pressure b!
Mr.. Joyce resulted in the sacrifice o
my Arlington home for the $4,000, tn,
aristOcratiC residents clubbing in an,
presenting my wife with $500 to de
fray the expenses Of moving and tn
loss to be incurred in selling off tn
COWS, milk wagons, horses, etc. o
course she lost more than the $500 II
/, the shrinkage I'm value Of some eigh
teen or twenty COWS. several milk wae
, ons, and five or six head Of horses
, with the other necessary adjuncts o
a dairy The $4,000 was turned owe
to Mr. Joyce and a second mortgag
! executed to him for 1900 on my Ga
street property to balance his account
+ or the original sum of $500 loane
me. The move to the Gay street res
dence and I'm due time the boardin
house business followed. An expend
I ture of several hundred-almOst
! housand-dollars, united the tw
buildings on my lot on Gay street, an
, then the struggle for existence for m
, wife and children commenced. Horse
:. carriages, jewelry books, pictures, e'
a erything of intrinsic value we're 4
/ time turned into cash at the usui
4 sacrifice; interest had to be paid o
i the mortgage, wear and tear Of furn
I. ture, building, etc, replaced and r
4 paired, and owing to her inexpe
q fence, my wife lost in additio
o to serving meals at less than the
i. cost hundreds Of dollars by dead-bei
Il boarders, many of them belonging
r the old and aristocratic families
:. Columbus, one Of whom, a DennisC
v scion got away with some 5000. NJ
I. Joyce still continued to pile up h
I. thousands annually and I Meth,
l. heard from nor met him again. He
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