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Show FORMER NEW YORK JUDGE IS FORCED TO BEG BREAD Once Prominent He Lost Fortune in Wall Street and Then His Health Left Him. learn that he had lost (36,000, all he had. ' The failure ruined Mr. Tullen's health, and for three years following; he was compelled to rely for -up port on hi9 son, Charles Tullen, a compositor. The son died, and Mrs. Tullen, who had sold everything she had to give them existence, had to go to work to support both. For almost two years they lived on what she could make at cutting gold leaf, and then, last February, Feb-ruary, when she died, Tullen was forced to live from hand to mouth. At the Manhattan club. Judge Truax paid that, although he had not seen Tulr len for twenty years, he remembered the former Judge as a worthy man, whom he would not hesitate to aid. NEW YORK, Nov. 7. Bowed by age and starving, Henry A. Tullen, once a civil and criminal Judge in Westchester County, tottered Into the Outdoor Foor department office, at the foot of East Twenty-Fixth street, begging for bread. One night he had ppent In the almshouse, alms-house, but, being unable to endure life there, he left to get city aid elsewhere, until he could look up tome of his old friends. , He said both Judge Charles H. Truax and. Judge John J. Freedman were old friends of his, and last night Judge Truax paid he remembered Tullen as one of the men who had given to him great encouragement when he was starting on his legal carter. Tullen Is 75 years old. In 1S6S he was ramed by both Democrats and Republicans Republi-cans for the Westchester bench. For six weeks he held the office, having hav-ing been associated during that time with Judges Arthur Hoffman and John Flanagan. According to his story, he went Into Wall street many years ago and . founded a partnership, which ended In disaster. For a time business was good, but, Tullen says, his partner was not fair, and he went to his office one morning to |