The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-05-13

ONE MAN FOUND WHO DOES NOT
CARE FOR MONEY.
Lure Of Comfortable Home, With
Greenhacks in profusIon, Unable
to Decoy Joseph Flusser From
the Life He Loves.

If you were shoveling coal and get.
ting no pay for it and sleeping nights
under a wharf aud getting such
meager bits Of food as just happened
to fall your way and your brother
should come along and discover you
after long, long search aud take
you by the hand and tell you that ha
had $4,000 for you and a good home
and plenty to eat, would you run away?
Then, If running away, that brother
should ask the Judge to declare that
you were crazy. wouldn't your brother
have good ground for his move?
That's the situation presented in the
singular case Of Benjamin Flusser,
who keeps furniture store at 214
Springfield avenue, one OF the main
business streets Of Newark, N j., who
has asked the court to look into the
state of mind of his brother, Joseph,
who has been sent to the detention
ward of Bellevue hospital. New York,
because he runs away from money
which almost any man will chase for
miles and lose his breath over and
cheat and lie and scheme and sell gold
bricks for. Benjamin had been look
Ing for Joseph since their father died
on November rs last leaving an estate
of $4,000, of which $4,000 was Jo-
seph's share. Benjamin was walking
along Grand street, New York, when
he ran across Joseph busy shoveling
coal into a cellar from a sidewalk.
When Benjamin told him what had
happened, Joseph said: 81 don't want
anybody's money; hate money; give
II away and please go away and let
me work. know am your brother.
but ! do not want money. ! am work
Ing; so go away and let me finish my
Job"
MY brother cannot be In his right
senses" says benjamin He will not |
sleep In home and has place under
the Williamsburg bridge. He hates to
be in home and won't work In a
store. | want to give him good |
home, and could get him good job,
but he win stay with nobody. He runs
after wood and coal carts until they |
are ready to be unloaded and then he
helps
Sometimes they give him ten cents.
sometimes IS and maybe quarter.
They say he will not take quarter,
saying he does not want any ones
money, while lots of times he works
and then goes away without looking
Tor any money or waiting for It,"
The moneyhating brother Is forty
four years old and came from Austria.
Before leaving Europe he was one
day leaning over bridge watching
FATHERS below, when the rail against
which he leaned snapped and he fell
on his head many feet below, strik-
Ing a pile Of lumber After that he
was semi-consclous for SIX months,
and did not recover his mental or
physical strength for year. That
was rs years ago
With two Of his six brothers. Benja'
'nin and Max. the eccentric ore came
70 Newark. He worked with his broth
ers for a while, left them and worked
N Salomon's tannery for four or five
Gears. This was the longest he hsi
( Ter stayed in ono place. and he haC
sFed up several hundred dollars.
Z he Chicago Worlds Fair then wa
\ lertised and Joseph went 10 T.
q He lost all his money ard he
re lost to his brothers. They lool
z sc, ss"r ir Chicago, traced him I,
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