Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-16
SPURNS FILTHY LUCRE
ONE MAN FOUND WHO DOES NOT
CARE FOR MONEY.
Lure OF Comfortable Homo, With
Greenbacks In Profuslon, 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 a wharf and getting such
meager bits of food as just happened
to fall your way and your brother
should come along and discover you
after a long. long search and take
you by the hand and tell you that he
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 a 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 25 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: II don't want
anybody's money; hate money; give
It away and please go away and let
me work. I know am your brother,
but do not want money. l 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 a home and won't work IN a
store. I 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 Is and maybe a 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
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 a bridge watching
bathers below, when the rail against
which he leaned snapped and he fell
on his head many feet below, strik
Ing q pile of lumber. After that he
was semi-conscious for six months
and did not recover his mental OF
physical strength for a year. Thai
was % years ago.
With two Of his six brothers, Ben1a
min and Max, the eccentric one came
to Newark. He worked with his broth
ers for while, left them and worked
In Salomon's tannery for four or i've
years. This was the longest he mac
aver stayed in one place, and he nae
saved up several hundred dollars.
The Chicago Worlds Fair then wat
advertised and Joseph went to the
fair. He lost all his money and be
came lost to his brothers. They look
ed for him in Chicago, traced MIN te
various parts, and finally found thai
he was in New York. From time te
time they we're told that he had peeI
seen over there, and they went to loof
for him. but without success.
Max FIusser, broker, died IN New
ark. November rs, leaving $l4ooo, o
which $4,000 was in cash and $4,oo'
In second mortgages. Benjamin Flus
ser is the administrator of the estate
and as he says $4,000 Is Joseph
share. he wants to protect his brotne'
and put him in some home or institu
lion where he will be cared for. Tni'