| Show A MISEBS FATE An Old Woman of Starvation is Found Dying About Her Person and Place Are Found Money and Bank Credits Amounting to Nearly Five Thousand Dollars Special to TIE HERALD Examiner Dispatch NEW YORK April 4On the top a James street tenement house on a heap of rags was found today an old woman starving to death while hidden about her was nearly 5000 At noon tho janitor told Sergeant Magan of the police that Mrs Catharine Roche a feeble woman seventy years old who occupied the top floor of the building had not been seen for three days Officers Distlec and Walker entered the place L through the window On the floor lying a pile of old rags they found Mrs Roche I nearly starved to death She said she had eaten nothing for nothing several sev-eral days and she was too weak to rise from the floor As she was raised by the officers gold coin dropped from her ragged clothes The officers sent her to the hospital and then searched the room They found a bank book of the Emigrant Savings bank to Catharine Roches credit with a balance of 1670 a deposit book of the Bleeker Street Savings bank revealed a balance of 108000 the womans credit golden halfeagles and silver coin in all amounting to 8160 of American money rolled on the floor from a bundle of rags then British gold amounting to 159 sovereigns sover-eigns or 770 of American money was discovered dis-covered The money and bank accounts were found to amount to more than 4000 The neighborhood filled with Italians and they knew but little of the woman except that she was always supposed to have money although she denied it and bewailed be-wailed her poverty Fred Bruseke who keeps a grocery said The old woman has been coming in here for the past four years She bought a pennys worth of milk and a twocent loaf of bread each day and occasionally occa-sionally five cents worth of tea |
