The secret history of the French hat maker who gave Bojangles his name
We’ll get to how in a bit, but first let’s explore what happened on Nov. 1, 1874, the day L.J. Boujasson decided he just couldn’t take it anymore.F.S. Gloor
He hadn’t. Though the projectile had entered the top of Gloor’s skull and lodged there, he was expected to survive. Gloor was brought to the Church Institute, formerly the Medical College Infirmary. Doctors had a hard time keeping him there, later reporting that Gloor frequently left his bed to walk around the city.
Like Boujasson, Gloor was an immigrant. He was Swiss, a tailor who worked out of the Monumental Hotel. Boujasson’s lawyers did not present much of a case at his trial, choosing to blame Gloor for his own death. They said that disobeying the doctors, leaving the hospital and walking Richmond’s streets had brought on the infection that killed him.
The judge asked Boujasson if there was anything he had to say. It was only then that the hat maker shared his story. The previous summer, Gloor had come into Boujasson’s shop to have a hat fixed. When the work was completed, Gloor took the hat without paying, Boujasson said.
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