Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-04-19


|. see double column headings in the
newspapers shortly announcing TO ali
the world that I am squirrel fruit.
] sha'n't be ut ali offended. So that
the last OF that sinking English
pride seems TO have disappeared. In
fact. I'm not sure that | don't feel
battered that / should have brought
before the notice of the dear public.
Though ] don't think ! can forgive
you for giving my age as forty five.
| You are spelling my chances CTm
years younger). Should there be ans
| mail for me, l would appreciate II
you will forward 1t to mo here
Sincerely yours.
THOMAS w. SHELLEY.
"P. SAINT the newspapers won
derful? Now you know the meaning
OF news in q nutshell
DIR. TrIcc Gets Letter.
On Saturday DR.. Tricc received a
The letter was postmarked Richmond
| and mailed at an early hour. 1t
reached Dr. Trice about noon. AL
thouSMsigned, The Wandering Jew"
the handwriting and phrasiug of the
letter received several days before by
Mrs Chadick. II is. apparently. the
work OF an insane man. 4 similar
letter signed in the same manner was
also received by the superintendent of
the Williamsburg institution. Eacn
letter had phrases frequently used by
Shelley and referred 10 incidents
known to them. The letter to DR..
Trice follows:
Dear Daddy Long Lcss.--IIere is
a letter YOU have been waiting for.
though no, a very long one. You
| did before. Now junk is Chinese
boat. And the boat ! made you cap
tain or is no Ch!naman. So beware
the junk
Please don; be offended at me no;
calling ana seeing you. One reason
is because L accredited you with more
Intelligence than the other people /
told was down visiting 70. the day
If Sa;ha can't ;c!l lie. VINO can?
and didn't want you TO betrav a
WIDOWS son. II VIII be bad day for
any one tina. does. He's got more
friends than there are parish churches
II am Still running oil schedulc.
800 ~..'' ~ Jay ana nlS nIS
IN the belly OF a whale. That's nou.-
ing. HIS days were no, the same ns
yours. The world was made In seven
days mot your kind Of days). Each
day was a period and the periods are
/ seven days. tAnd YOU know. Doc,
man comes into the world when the
, periods are hnished) And the world
was man: that's how the world was
, made
NO doub, you know wha, I'm
striving ut. WEI. God made man and
IL. rested; then lie made woman
and neither God nor man has rested
| since
And I'm trying TO give man a res;
ana women something to do. There
ism, anything tina, can think OF IN
me way o! civilization bat what man
h"S" nh; there. And I'm @f:er tho
/ women, Doe Sounds terrible. docsn.;
/ ~ after the womcn). and If they
d"at let he'll loose one of these DAYS
I'm no; The imp o: IIcM.' We've 20,
10 nave our house PIT ia order And
that's ,omans job. spring clean.
.ig' men Viii ;h:nk IT'S Hell. as usual
/ We'll. mus; be closing nov. TAR
/ thou til! ! como
j L.
similar letters signed The WAN
der'ng Jcw" have been received hy
Inc Times Dispatch. usually accom-
panied by crude drawings.
Was Model Gentleman.
Never bcfor. writing the le,,c,
above had SHELLEY been familiar wi;I
aim, Or. Tricc stated las; n!rh, ut
said ihat Shelley wAs always KIN.
and courteous and apparently q
model gentleman. He paid the doc
tor 500 OF the $500, which ne hat
charged as zee for the operations. bu,
Dr. TFicc said that he did not cxpec,
L" receive amy compensation. know
ms sheNcy's financial! status.
Last Thursday Shelley suddcnl,
appeared In Richmond again and Wis
+, i;ed the hou!e OF his landlady. wh.r :,
, he stayed for tea aud recovered hi
possessions, which lie had lcc; ther.
: on sotng 10 the hospital II. was il
; the host o: health, II is declared. an,
: cheerful as could hc. although an
, p.-rc"i.y weak. lie chat;cd with tn.
family II. some time and finally LEI,
: saying tHlt he would take the mex
G train BAGS TO Williamsburg lie ais,
1 visited the Shcitcrlns Arms iIospi,a
G for Few minutes
Af;e? leaving the Shelf, ring Arm
: Hospita. he went BACK TO the laugh
: man, Stationery Company, where h
: waS given $2j lie was also give,
3 50 by his landiady. when she dis
e covered :hat he was almost penni
less.
showed No Sign OF Insanity.
$ according TO his lamdlady, Shelle
\ VAS rational when he visited he
. Thursday md at ell times while a
p her home. He never exhibited an
signs o: being feeble minded. shc de
: c!ared, OF Ia the lcas, way actc
n 9u"eriy. II" was always reading In
: hes, OF books and was "a freaucg.
y patron OF The Virginia state Lihrar,
8 MIS- chad!ck stated that he pre-
n fcrred deep, classical books an
Z heavy Literature. lilo was Away
quiet and wnll behaved, she stated.
Apparently Shelley iiad n vlvi