The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-05-18
SPURNS FILTHY LUCRE
ONE MAN FOUND WHO DOES NOT
CARE FOR MONEY.
Lure OF Comfortable Home, With
Greenbacks In Profusion, Unable
TO Decoy Joseph Flusser From
the Life He Loves.

If you were shoveling coal and get
ting no pay for 1t and sleeping nights
under wharf and getting such
meager bits of food as Just happened
to fall your way and your brother
should Csme along and discover you
after long, long search and take
you by the hand and tell you that he
had $4,000 for you and good home
and plenty to eat, would you run away? ?
Then, II 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 sidewalk
When Benjamin told him what had
happened, Joseph said: 81 don't want
anybodys money; hate money; give
1t away and please go away and let
me work. know l am your brother.
but do not want money. I 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 a 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 a good
home and could get him a good job,
but he will 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 15 and maybe quarter.
They say he will not take a quarter,
saying he does not want any ones
money, while lots of times he works
and then goes away without looking
for any money or waiting for It,"
The money-hating brother is forty
four years old and came from Austria.
Before leaving Europe he was one
day leaning over bridge watching
bathers below, when the rail against
which he leaned snapped and he fell
on his head many feet below, strik-
Ing pile of lumber. After that he
was semiconscious for six months,
and did not recover his mental or
physical strength for year. That
was % years ago.
With two Of his six brothers, Benja-
min and Max, the eccentric one came
TO Newark. He worked with his BROTH
ers for a while, left them and worked
In Salomon's tannery for four or five
years. This was the longest he had
ever stayed in one place, and he had
saved up several hundred dollars.
The Chicago Worlds Fair then was
advertised and Joseph went to the
fair He lost all his money and be-
came lost to his brothers. They look
ID for him in Chicago, traced him 10
various parts. and finally found that
he was in New York. From time to
time they were told that he had been
seen over there. and they went to look
,or him, but without success.
Max Flusser. broker, died in New.
ark. November %, leaving $4,000, OF
which $4,000 was In cash and s4,Ooo
N second mortgages. Benjamin Flus-
ser is the administrator OF the estaoe'
and as he says $4,000 is Joseph's $
share. he wants to protect his brother
md put him in some home or instltu-
ion where he viii be cared for. Inls
a tie $4,000. that Joseph spurns.