The Washington herald., 1906-12-21
BONAPARTE LOSES
Judge Takes Away Tenant
and Sends Him to JeSsup.
SLEEPS IN CAVE; PAYS NO RENT
Prefers Quick Lunch from Garbage
Cans and Bed OF BriCkbats to Com
forts Bought by work-says He
Was Trying 10 Regain Health by
Leading a simple Life.

Baltimore. Nd, Dec. 20.-Attorney Cen
eral Bonaparte has lost a tenant At ?
o'clock this morning the Vacant Lot
Ledger who has been making his home
under the Calvert street sidewalk on
the BOnaparte lot, back Of the Alexander
Brown & Sons building, was rudeiy
aroused from his sIum5ers by Policeman
Lawrence Moran and taken to the Cen
trial police station, where Justice Gran
nan gave him a receipt in full for six
months rent at the House Of Correction
His name is Julius Kuttner-at least,
that is the name he gave the police.
Yesterday he couldn't speak word OF
English; this morning he spoke with fair
ffuency. He said among other things.
that he had been living in his vacant lot
cave because of I'll health, believing that
the rugged outdoor life would make him
strong again. For food. he said. he de-
pended largely upon garbage boxes, pick
ing from them such pieces Of bread or
meat as had been swept from the table
Of Dives for the sustenance Of Lazarus
II is altogether a remarkable story he
tells. His poverty seems to be a matter
of choice. His mental condition Is aP-
parently clear At the hearing this morn
ing he hung his head IN shame
Taking Fresh Air Cure.
Kuttner, who says he is forty-six years
old, is a small. bent man, with ragged,
black beard and deep, sad eyes In spite
Of his statement that he IS i'll he seems
to be able-bodied. In disjOinted responses
10 questioning this morning, he said:
Il have no money. I was born in Prus-
STA, in Posen. I am fOrty-six years old
and cigarmaker by trade"
Were you working in BALTIMORE"
Not for ten months the vacant-lot
lodger said. 7 worked on East Pratt
street for a while, but I have not been
well ! have been in Baltimore about q
year, and came here from Savannah. I
haven't worked for ten months, because
my health was so bad"
Kuttner fumbied his hands and twisted
the ends OF his beard neryously.
Why did you sleep in that vacant
lot?"
Well he said, II thought It would
be good for me and make me strong again
10 sleep in the open air"
Why didn't you go TO the country
4 don't know. / thought maybe I'd
get strong again and 20 10 work I have
been sleeping over therein the vacant
lot-for two or three months every night
II has been cOld-sometimes very cold
but I don't mind il, because II viii make
me strong again, maybe"
Garbage Quick Lunch His Fare.
Justice Grammar asked him where lie
found food.
Anywhere" was the reply.
DO you go into garbage boxes2"
The man looked steadily down at the
floor. painfully ashamed, and replied:
Yes, I get some bread. some meat, from
the garbage boxes, sometimes. And then
eat what can get"
BY begging"
Yes
Kuttner said that he had two brothers
in New York City and a sister and
brother-in-law in Oregon. but as to
whether they were able to care for him
or assist him he did not seem TO know;
in fact, he did not seem TO care. He said
that he was tramp from choice. and
that he intended 10 continue his wander
ing life.
We'll" said Justice Grammar. we're
/
rection. and II you have no objection III
send YOU out there. What do you say?''
KuttneT mumbled something and was
told to speak UP.
II you think il is right, suppose It
viii be best" he replied.
VIII Get Change of Clothes.
And, accordingly, Kuttner, the vacant
/ lot LOGGER. will become a six month resi-
dent OF Jessup's Cut The minute he ar
rives at his new home all his clothing
viii be burned or fumigated. It needs it.
Kuttner was perfectly willing TO talk
about himself after the hearing, but his
story boiled itself down into the simple
/ statement that he IS a wanderer on the
| face of the earth; that he is indebted to
/ garbage boxes for his sustenance, and
/ that his Aesculapian preference is open
air for all ailments that afflict mankind
| He said the bricks in the vacant lot were
not hard. that he always slept we'll
/ because absence Of responsibilities makes
sound sleep
/ As 10 any other affairs than his own
/ precarious existence he had nothing at
/ all 10 say. The world might wag by rea-
son of or in spite of his existence. but he
/ had no interest in the matter at all be-
yond continuing TO breathe He had no
/ theories Of social responsibility. and
/ frankly admitted that ne preferred his
4 own way Of living.