The Elk County Advocate

Wyatt Chadwell, an old man, clutched nervously at the iron railing in front of the justice's desk, on Monday, in the New York Tombs, when called to answer a charge of intoxication. He astonished the court by reciting passages from Shakespeare and Virgil, winding up his discourse with an extract from Homer's Iliad. The prisoner's classic recollections failed to have any effect, however. He asserted that he was grandson of Patrick Henry; he had been a Confederate soldier and participated in all the chief battles of the rebellion. Justice Kilbreth listened to him with attention and then discharged him with a reprimand.