| Show RUINED BY PIE love for athla pastry barred aln oat ol 01 the and him to Ioree ry A most singular case is now iu the courts at kingston in this state A young man livings there was lately found to be a forger and when be confessed he said he was driven to the crime by an ungovernable gluttony for mince pie to satisfy his craving he had forged the signature of a wealthy man to a nota for one thousand dollars and had got the paper discounted says the buffalo courier with the proceeds he went on a mince pie spree and had devoured sixty dollars worth of this pastry before he was arrested according to his story his extraordinary liking for mince pie began to how itself when he was a boy lie seemed even then to feel that there i was something abnormal in his appe tite for he went voluntarily to bloomingdale asylum in the hope of being cured of his gluttony after he came out he believed he was cured and began to study for the ministry but in a fatal hour about two years later the mania for pie came upon hiro with irresistible power lie broke into the housekeepers closet in the auburn theological seminary where he was a student and gorged himself with mince pie his relapse so preyed upon him that he went to the faculty and they advised him he says to drop his studies as it would be detrimental ri to the ministerial calling for him to enter it with such a fatal appetite for mince pie he would be likely to suffer a seizure of his mania at a supper in the church parlors or at the table of one of his flock and create an unforgettable able scandal tie took the advice of the faculty and went to peddling clothes wringers and bed springs but his malady was now so deep seated that he subordinated everything to his craving lie developed an unusual cunning for stealing mince pie or in getting the money with which to purchase it 1 I would be tempted said he and fall go to a restaurant and eat a pie and a halt or two pies I 1 became as helpless a victim to the mince pie habit as the drunkard is to the drink habit sometimes I 1 have pawned my overcoat or my watch when I 1 have seen an uncommonly luscious pie in a window and have not had enough ready money to buy it then came the forging of the note and the pie orgy which ended in his arrest after bearing his story a commission was appointed to inquire into his sanity and it is likely that instead of being sent to a penitentiary he will be placed in a lunatic asylum he is as a thin nervous look ing man with a wild expression which is disappointing for many a man of new england ancestry would be glad to cultivate this lunacy if it would not spoil his complexion and keep him awake nights |
