"THE CRAZY ENGLISHMAN."

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 252, 31 October 1878, Page 6

"THE CRAZY ENGLISHMAN."

Ti.e suiui'i" of a gentlem-in, by name Gr^en, kc.owu us " iba crazy Englishmaii." is recorded i>y ihe Leivenworth Times (fjoijrd Suites,) The eve.nl took plHee on tba 10;h of Jo]y, and although Mr Green's end was a 3ad one, he dees uoi, »put>ar to have been a 1c63 to gjciely. His fre ks and eccentriciiien have, it is stated, formed ttie basis of tnnny & nswspnper parsgraph, and his career is faciiliar to everyone in America. " Possessed of a memory co-ex'ensive in its fjraap with the scope of a hundred abstruse Buljscts, be fascinated all who came near him when he chose to exert himself io the ait of pleasing; and then in the short space of a few hours he ■would transform Jiimself from the polished genllemnp, the travelled scholar, and the man of science and letter, into a wild and reckless devotee of&ia and debauchery." He was a graduate^ of one of the English universities, but, becoming estranged from his family by his wild and reckless career, .'eparted from home, friends, and kiudred, and was a wanderer to the end of his days. He bad an enormous fortunp, and it is believed that he "came of gentle blooJ." Anyhow, he came to Leavenworth about four years ago, where he made a " tremeudour stir " by his unbounded liberality and recklees conduct. Among other eccentric proceedings in which Mr Green indulged for the edification of the gooJ people of Leaveuwortb was a rehearsal of his own funeral. Lying in a coffia, wilh a bottle of whisky by his aide, he was placed in a hearse one evening, an', followed by several mourning c&riiuges, was driven through the principal streets of the city, being at the close of the drive " too much under the influence of l ; quor to realise the sacrilegious piece ot mockery in which he had been engaged." Yet he was generous to a fault, nnd his popularity was much enhanced" by his amiable custom of never looking at r bill when presented to him, but paying immediately without murmur or investigation. He ultimately poisoned himself when drunk in one of the streets ; or, aa the Leavenworth Times more gracefully expresses it, « iv a weak and unguarded moment, *iih the fibres of his being all but unstrung by the influence of deep potations, he prepared the fatal dose which was the cause of unveiling to Henry Green the myeBtenes of the silent land."