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Show Reached Her Girl ' as Breath Left Body Mother Pinds Daughter, Missing for Tive Years, Dead in a Hos- pital. NEW YORK, May 24.-"Mothcr oh, I want to see mother boforo I die." Thus cried a woman, a3 sho, lay dying ln 13cllovuo hospital. Hurrying Hurry-ing across tho city as fast as a horso'and cab could carry her, tho mother racod against death and lost tho raco by thirty seconds, arriving- as hor child stlfCcncd itvt death. May Manly had boon missing five years. On April 11 a wan, wasted girl of 25 was brought ln suffering In the last stages of a complication of diseases, of which consumption and heart failure formed the components. Run down by dissipation and with constitution wrecked by drink, the doctors knew that sho would never leave the institution nllvo. When asked her name sho said that sho was May Brophy and that her homo was at 215 East NInety-Boventh street, whcre her aunt, Mrs. Kate Brophy, lives. Yesterday afternoon tho superintendent was notified that the girl's death was a matter of hours, and Mrs. Brophy was. notified. Sho hurried to tho hospital ln Ignorance that any ono noar to her lay there. When she saw tho dying girl Mrs. Brophy recognized ln her May Manly, whom sho had not seen for five years, at which tlmo tho pretty girl had disappeared disap-peared from her homo. "Mother oh, I want to sec mother before be-fore I die." wept tho girl, A messenger Tins Bent ln a cab for the mother. Mrs. Manly fainted when told lhat her daughter daugh-ter had been found only to bo again taken away from hor. She was carried ln a scarcely conscious condition to the cab, and hurried at tho top of tho horse's speed for Bollevuo. At the hospital they hurried her through the ward to tho spot where tho whlto screens stretched around tho cdt. Tho girl ln her death agony heard tho hurrying steps and tho sobs of her mother. mo-ther. "My mother!" sho cried. Her oyes did not greet the distracted woman. May Manly died as hor mother's feet passed tho threshold of the ward. |