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WOULD SEE POE'S TOMB
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Baltimore Police Chief Took Stranger There at Midnight.
[Telegraph to The Tribune.]
Baltimore, April 9. — Chief of Police Farnan was called upon to pay a midnight visit to the tomb of Edgar Allan Poe, in old Westminster churchyard, last night as the escort of J. H. Earnshaw, a visitor from the West. The Chief was about to retire when the stranger arrived at his home, called him to the door and begged him to take him to the tomb, saying he had come two thousand miles to see it.
The Chief was a bit suspicious, and for while he kept his hand on his revolver as he whirled along with the stranger in a taxicab. When they entered the churchyard, and the Chief pointed out the grave and the modest tombstone. the stranger asked if that was the best Baltimore could do for so great a poet. The Chief told him there was a plan on foot to erect a memorial, and the stranger assured him he would subscribe to it.
“He was a polished, highly educated gentleman,” said the Chief to-day, “but it was the queerest mission I have ever been asked to perform.”
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Notes:
The identity of J. H. Earnshaw is not known. One possibility might be John Henry Earnshaw (1862-1947), although he was born in England and emigrated to New Jersey. To the contrary, the indication of “from the West,” and the distance, would suggest someone from or near California.
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[S:0 - NYT, 1910] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - A Poe Bookshelf - Would See Poe's Tomb (Anonymous, 1910)