Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1877 — The Effect of a Lottery Prize. [ARTICLE]

The Effect of a Lottery Prize.

The individual who has been profanely representing himself in Philadelphia and New York to be the Son of God, is a person named John C. Daudt, of Ridgeton, N. J. A Times reporter discovered that he was formerly a cutter in Charles C. Grosscup's tailoring establishment, on Laurel street, above Commerce, m that city. The investigation revealed some interesting phases in Daudt’s life. Up to two years ago he was a quiet, industrious tailor, in the establishment mentioned, his earnings having been invested in the Havana lottery for a number of years previously. In 1875 Daudt drew a prize in the Havana lottery amounting to SIO,OOO in gold. His success turned his head. During one of his lucid intervals he married his boarding-house mistress, notwithstanding he had a wife and even children residing in Bethlehem, Pa., to whom he had regularly sent remittances. Shortly after the new matrimonial alliance, Mr. Daudt believed that he was called upon to evangelize the world, and finally claimed to be the Son of God. and went around through the community professing to save sinners and heal all manner of diseases. Daudt was arrested some time since in Bridgeton and consigned to the Cumberland County Prisou. at the instigation of his second wife, and he remained there

until Judge Alfred Reed ordered him to be taken to the New Jersey State insane Asylum, St Trenton, from whence, a short time since, he escaped and came to Philadelphia, boarding at 1,042 North Front street. He then want to New York, and while there endeavored to send a telegram to the Rev. Hemy Belting, pastor of the Central M. E. Church, of Bridgeton, which exposed his Insanity. He bad, it has been ascertained, about $2,500 on deposit in a New York (Mink or savings institution, and carried large sums of money on his person. He has disappeared, and fears are entertained that he has been foully dealt with.— Philaddnhia Timet.