His
enormous income has been exhausted to the ultimate farthing, and at
latest accounts he had quit the city, leaving behind him, it is shrewdly
suspected, a large hotel bill, though no such admission can be extorted
from his last landlord, who is evidently a sycophantic adulator of
British "aristocracy."
DOCUMENT NO. 9.
_Certificate of deposit, vulgarly known as a pawn-ticket, issued by one
Simpson to William Beauvoir, December 2d, 1848:_
=John Simpson,
Loan Office,
36 Bowery,
New York.=
_Dec. 2nd, 1848_,
_One Gold Hunting-case Watch and_ Dolls. Cts.
_Chain 150 00_
_William Beauvoir_
Not accountable in case of fire, damage, moth, robbery, breakage, &c.
25% per ann. Good for 1 year only.
DOCUMENT NO. 10.
_Letter from the late John Phoenix, found among the posthumous papers of
the late John P. Squibob, and promptly published in the "San Diego
Herald":_
OFF THE COAST OF FLORIDA, Jan.
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