The Rocky Mountain News (Daily), Volume 41, Number 268, September 25, 1900 page 3
ROMANCE LOCKED IN THE GRAVE
Absalom Blett, the Hermit Miser of Golden, is Dead. / Special to The News. GOLDEN, Colo., Sept. 24.—Absalom Blett, the hermit miser and unfathomable mystery of Golden, is dead, and with him to the grave will go the story of his life, untold because it Is unknown, for the sad romance of his disappointed and blighted manhood is locked in his sealed lips, and those who can will not tell the facts indicated by the snatches of narrative gleaned at times from the eccentric recluse. Absalom Blett, as nearly as the truth can be learned, was the victim of a •woman's caprice. A year ago he was found weak from starvation and neglect, yet with $2,800 buried under the floor, almost at the point of death in his little cabin in Golden. Then the first inkling of the truth was made known. Absalom Blett was a hermit and miser from brooding over a disappointed love. In the days before the war, back In a Pennsylvania town, ho met and wooed the only woman he ever loved. His brother, Abraham Blett, envied him his choice, sought also the same hand and won from his brother the woman's love. Broken hearted, distrustful of the honor of men and a. hater of the caprice of women, Absalom Hiett sought out the remotest desert country, where, amid new scenes, he might forget the sorrows of his youth.
The Rocky Mountain News (Daily), Volume 41, Number 268, September 25, 1900 page 3
ROMANCE LOCKED IN THE GRAVE
Absalom Blett, the Hermit Miser of Golden, is Dead. / Special to The News. GOLDEN, Colo., Sept. 24.—Absalom Blett, the hermit miser and unfathomable mystery of Golden, is dead, and with him to the grave will go the story of his life, untold because it Is unknown, for the sad romance of his disappointed and blighted manhood is locked in his sealed lips, and those who can will not tell the facts indicated by the snatches of narrative gleaned at times from the eccentric recluse. Absalom Blett, as nearly as the truth can be learned, was the victim of a •woman's caprice. A year ago he was found weak from starvation and neglect, yet with $2,800 buried under the floor, almost at the point of death in his little cabin in Golden. Then the first inkling of the truth was made known. Absalom Blett was a hermit and miser from brooding over a disappointed love. In the days before the war, back In a Pennsylvania town, ho met and wooed the only woman he ever loved. His brother, Abraham Blett, envied him his choice, sought also the same hand and won from his brother the woman's love. Broken hearted, distrustful of the honor of men and a. hater of the caprice of women, Absalom Hiett sought out the remotest desert country, where, amid new scenes, he might forget the sorrows of his youth.
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