| Show sudden riches bring tragedy traced frank grigoris Grigor ls he be sixty seven year old sandwich man who became a minor hero because he turned over to the pollee police in negotiable securities after he found the wallet in which they had been lost is shown being taken to a new york psychopathic hospital doctors explained that the mans mental illness was caused jy by the new ex cite ments the low flow of unimagined wealth and the patients poor physical condition A messenger lost the wallet containing the securities and grigoris GrIgor ls plodding along through the snow picked it up and turned it over to the pollee police the news of his honesty became known to the press radio and motion picture newsreels news reels two days later and he was made much of As a result Grigor ls found himself affluent with a gift of 25 from another brokerage house a job as a messenger from the owners of the securities and gifts of all sorts A few days later GrIgor ls aroused the occupants of the bowery hotel where he was staying with shouts that he was god and had the power to kill a nan man by simply looking at him film A man who had been standing 7 I 1 in the lobby heard the shouts and followed the hotel clerk up the stairs there they found the sandwich man writhing on the floor the onlooker stared tor for a moment at arl garls and suddenly slumped to the floor dead probably it would have been better for or him to remain a sandwich man and certainly it would have been better if he had never found that money said dr C N colbert ills his diet before he became famous might inight not have suited the ordinary human being but to an old man suffering all the priva eions he had suffered for years and years and with an acute botic condition very little food probably was better for him than the comparative para tive richness of his meals since lie became a man of means it Is possible that he will clear up his big own condition this happens a sometimes it may have been too for him all at once in the meant meantime mew we are trying to keep him as quiet as possible for overdue overmuch h excitement might kill him now |
