Delaware gazette and state journal., 1902-11-20
BADOLLET FINED $25.
The Man Who Was Buried Alive VIII
Remain for Time in Jail.

ftinhin iOr a Ilne IN JAt1.
Baltimore, Nd, Nov. Is. John
Marc Badollet, the man who was
found buried alive in st. johns
Church cemetery Sunday morning, was
fined S25 and costs yesterday afternoon
by Justice Reed, at the Northern
Police Station, and sent to Jail in de
fault of the payment of the fine. This
action was entirely satisfactory to the
vestry of st. Johns Church.
The formal charge made against
Badollet was violating act q, section
68, chapter 215, acts of 1902, "by
acting in disorderly manner by bury
ing himself in coffin box in q grave
in st. Johns Protestant Episcopal
Church cemetery on November 10th. !"
Although Robert e. Lee Hall, at
torney for st. Johns vestry, members
of the vestry and Justice Reed and the
Police Department GROSS questioned
Badollet, they could not induce him
to abandon the story that he met a
stranger near st. Johns Church and
that he was forced by this man to be
buried alive and that this person was
one of four men who have been after
him for many years.
To reporter yesterday he said: II
had two glasses of beer in Laoy's
saloon. | then went to Clark's barber
shop and later started south on the
York road alone and met a man near
st. Johns Church. He insisted that |
should be buried alive and l went with
him."
He denied that he went in Dey's
saloon and got drink of whisky and
took drink outside to friend, as
was told of him. He said he never
drank whisky.
After the hearing Badollet asked to
see Rev. w. D. Morgan, rector of st.
Johns. IL was thought that no wanted
to confess to him, but he told the same
story about meeting the man. and then
asked Mr. Morgan if he would help
him to raise the money to pay his fine.
Mr.. Morgan told him he thought he
was better off where he was and would
be for some time to come.
The postal card spoken of as having
been addressed to the sexton of the
church was received by that gentleman
to Superintendent of st. John is grave
yard'' and signed sc. H." It was
worded as follows:
.'As have to go to New York on a
morning train Sunday it will be i'm
possible for me to be present at the
funeral. Yet, as wish to leave some
flowers on the grave, / will call at the
cemetery Sunday morning between
and 8. II convenient for you to be
there / will leave flowers in your care,
and il not, will leave them near the
grave and you will know what to do
with them. These flowers are a sur
prise and for this do not send them
to the home -
This is thought to have been sent
to get the sexton to the cemetery Sun
day morning, SO he could discover the
buried man.
A. D. Clemens, Jr., telephcned to
Lieut.. Dempsey yesterday that Badollet
had bought lot of ground from him
in 1885 on Tinges lane and Lowndes
avenue and afterward sold it to Albert
Longuemare, living at Wyandotte
avenue and Old York road. He paid
for the lot through the Waverly Build
ing and loan Association. Badollet
said it was true that he bought the lot
and sold it.
Captain Ward said from what he had
seen of the man and what conversation
be haa with him he wanted the jail
physician to examine into his mental
condition.
POSSIBLY JOHN NJ. BRADLET.
Elkton, Md, Nov. Is. 8.-Badollet is
supposed to be John M. Bradlet,
mschinist and typewriter repairer, who
was a visitor to Elkton on Friday last.
He called at the office of the Mutual
Fire Insurance Co., and in conversa-
tion with Ricketts, Nelson, the head
bpokkeeper, stated that he was on his
way to Baltimore He added that he
had spent the summer at Atlantic City
and had lost sc me money.