| Show SORROWS OF A POOR OLD MAN What the Successor ot Edgar A Poe Has Come to i A LeEaron Havington who by his name might be the scion of one ot Englands buest blooded houses but who is in reality an aged crank exMor mon ex spiritualist and said to be ex free lover who is given to wandering about town with acrooked staff and whose appearance is exactly like that of flip Van Winkle when he awakes from his twenty years napappeared before the bar of the Police Court yesterday yes-terday to answer to the grave charge of vagrancy Mr Havingtou for some months past has domiciled himself in the barn ufMr Hyrum Groesbeck the Fifteenth Ward and the cold weather coming on he has recently taken to bu ding fires in the interior of the barn This somewhat annoiei Mr Groesbeck as it interfered with certain arrangements he had in view Wi h the insurance ugents The baron being deaf tj Mr Groesbecks remnn stranes that gentleman cons It d I the police on the delicate point involved in-volved aui the baron was brought dar Judge Pypers gaze as abov narrated nar-rated He was represented befor the cour by the young attorney Mr Kred I Kessler in his behalf also appeared I three venerable witnesses reminiscent of nothing half so much as of the brat village cronies in the Silver King Their hurried and amazftd mimic con ferences together whenthe complai was read the blowing out > of their cheeks their open look of hostility to I the prosecutor their bold exclamation1 I of encouragement to each other and o I theirfriends attorney made up a scene rich enough even to cause the judge to relax something of his wonted I severity Mr Havingtons deieus was that he was a man oi letters that by his pen he was able to earn his livelihood ergo he could njt I uu a vagrant TO substantiate this he I brought forth the following convin cing proofs That he begged a Tribune sometimes at the cOle ot that kindred concern and sold it to the baker shops for bread David Morgan Jones better known as Chicken Jones testified that in his opinion Mr HavlU lon wa ore of the literati Christian Christian sen said the defendant had been employed em-ployed to write letters for him Pinned down he admitt d that it was one letter let-ter and that the consideration was 10 cents Mr Greensides the third witness wit-ness insisted on Mr Havingtons ta ents and Mr Kesslsr arose to defend him This man he said should be i sent to an asylum witnesses and principal looked aghastfor the poor They breathed more freely and Chicken Jones exclaimed vociferously vocifer-ously Hear Hear Mr Kes ler then drew a touching picture pic-ture of the sorrow which had oppressed gnius tune out of mind and reierred to Edgar Allen Poe who like Mr Hay ington was poor an outcast and a wanderer Against such a comparison no judge could be proof and sentence was suspended on Mr Christian ells promise to care for his friend until General Gen-eral Maxwell ascertained whether it would be DosMbli I to nrornrf him nrt mission i to that refuge of impovtr ihed authors he County Poor House The last seen of the little group the three witnesses and the counbelthey were meditating on the ignoble spectacle spec-tacle presented by their aged chief begging beg-ging the jailor not to discharge him until after the dinner hour was over |
