Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1900 — DISAPPOINTED IN LOVE. [ARTICLE]

DISAPPOINTED IN LOVE.

Romance of One of Indiana’s Strange Characters. Frank Henlig, whose life reads like a Bertha M. Clay romance, resides near Hecla, Ind., and lives on a penny a year. He is, probably, the most iftique character in Indiana. Henlig was a member of one of the most prominent families in New York in the antebellum days, and graduated at one of the eastern colleges. He fell in love with a Miss Van Wyck, probably of the now noted family, and they became engaged. He went to the war, and, when he returned, found his love married to another man. He came -near losing his mind, and has never been the same man since. He gathered together all he had and began an aimless journey over the country. He came near covering the world. His money began to dwindle, and finally gave out. He then began to ride freight cars. Twenty years ago he was taken off a freight train at Hecla. He was a very sick man, and it was some months before he was able to stand on his feet He never forgot his benefactors. Although he disappeared for several years, he finally came back and settled in a little old loghouse in the woods. It was set aside for him, and he made it his home. He did not wish to become a charge on the public, so he conceived an idea of levying a tribute of one cent per year on all who would give it. He now covers most of the northeastern Indiana counties, annually getting his one penny. It is claimed that the tribute money now amounts to S3OO per year. He has saved a considerable portion, and, it is claimed, has some money loaned out. He pays for everything he gets. —Commercial Tribune.