Show l Iv I tI t f I i l r. r i r TIiE THE IMMORTAL J. J N. N Most Picturesque of Characters Goes to Asylum i C As a Boy He lie Could Speak Thirteen Languages Und Mind Unhinged by a Great Criminal Trial Trial Has Has Been I J. J Insane Fifty Years Jacob Newman Free the immortal I- I f J. J N. N has reached tho the end of his travels He lie was finally adjudged Insane insane In ln sane and will spend tho remainder of his his' days In Ia the State Hospital of To- To jedo edo He is now seventy eight years jears old Thus passes a character known in every sizable town in every State Inthe Inthe in inthe the West For more Inore than half a century century cen con tury he be lived as the birds live No town towa I or State could claim him as its own In each ho was at home and among friends It Is his Ms claim and it is not disputed that he be knows more peo- peo plo personally than any jiny other living man For fifty years he has travelled up and down and across tho the country riding riding rid rid- ing lag free on nearly every railroad and living Jiving without expense in the best hotels hotels hotels ho ho- the towns he visited afforded D V. V H. H on Every Railroad Still in his possession are a hundred slips reading Good for J. J N. N His most treasured possession is a a. slip of paper signed by the tho leading officials of many of ot the biggest railroads in inthe inthe inthe the country It reads The Tue immortal J. J N. N pass him forever Good on all roads from now until I Hotel men In Jn the tho towns he ho visited aid a as ns much Ho He was never uever known to have more nore than a a. few cents at a a. time but in n the fifty years of his wanderings few landlords have been bold enough f 7 I I t S F j n j THE TIlE HORSE IS A PASSENGER ON THIS CAR I to present him with a a. bill It is recorded recorded re re- reat at corded that a a. once offered to throw threw off QU ff half the bill when h be beI Ie I I It I learned his guests guest's identity The im im- j k mortal J. J N. N glared at the landlord then declaring be ho would allow no one oneto oneto to outdo hint him in generosity and said paid he would throw off of the other half He Ho seldom stopped Jn In cities of more than population believing that in the largo large cities would be lost few news newspaper newspaper paper offices in the country outside of the largest cities where he Is not well not well I known Some years ago he ho travelled all over the country ransacking the files of newspapers for own obit obit- uary He has been reported dead deadmore deadmore deadmore more than once He is an apostle of truth pressure press ure and keeper of the secret of the veil For forty years he has been promising to lift the veil and put on the pressure Wherever he ho stopped in the course of his hig migrations his first announcement announce ment meat was that men called him crazy and that he was about to put the pressure on This pressure was some mysterious force which he alone he be believed prevented from crushing out of existence all the life of this con No one has ever doubted that be he was insane He Ha himself boasted of it But Buthis Buthis Buthis his is an insanity that up to now Inspired Inspired In In- only friendship and sympathy But behind his insanity and his fifty years of aimless wandering over the country is a tragic story Mind Unhinged by Illow In his youth he ho was an Infant phe At four years of age he read almost all of the Bible Dible and during dur dur- ing his teens he acquired a reading and speaking knowledge of no less than thirteen languages During the gold craze in 49 he went West and started a stage line Within two years he had accumulated ted a fortune of A partner robbed him and then J N. N moved back to Ohio and began the study of law Within a few years ho stood at the top toi of the bar of Cincin Cincin- naiL One day he was defending a murderer murderer murderer mur mur- derer In whose Innocence he strongly believed As a result of his eloquence the man was acquitted The same day his client confessed that he was guilty J N. N rushed back to the courtroom and started to explain but the strain and excitement had been too much for him He was stricken with apoplexy Within a a. short time he recovered his physical health but never his mental poise |