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Show ONCE RICH . MAN JAILED Reduced to Penury, He j Allows His Children to ! Peddle. NEW YORK, June 3. James B. Led-den, Led-den, for many years a wealthy broker of Boston, is in Jefferson Market prison. pris-on. He is charged with permitting his children to peddle In the streets. Two beautiful daughters, aged 15 and 11 years, are In the care of the Children's society, and his son, aged 13, is in the Juvenile asylum. An agent of the Children's society arrested ar-rested Ledden in a small room, miserably miser-ably furnished, where he lived with the children. The latter sold small bottles of perfume In the streets and are said to have supported their father in this way for two years. Ledden was at one time rated as worth half a million dollars. The panic of 1893 shattered his fortune. |