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Show IS AFRAID OF WITCHES New York Man Would Go to Almshouse Alms-house to Escape Them. ALBANY. N. Y.. Jan. 4 Joseph Mrooskl called at the (.!!. .f ' 'imnls-sloner 'imnls-sloner of Charities Storrs Ktid requested to be sent to the nlmshous-e. siylng h was afraid cf v. Itches ard wanted to n to some plnce wher! they could not harm him Mrooskl hanle.l in S 'VI" -written statetnen' . hl.h purj ortcd to be sworn to by him before a commls-Moner commls-Moner of deeds Th? statement rends "I am 50 years old and married. My home Is In Buffalo I left there last Mpy and went to Herkimer, N. Y., ind secured a Job on the New York Ccn'.rnl railroad, and worked eleven days. I .tsve up my work on account of witches hunting mc. On leaving Herkimer I went to Bchodack Landing, re.ic'.-.lnc than In July, and I worked there six week?. Frcm Schodack Landing I v. cnt to New York, but could get no work there. I wept to the almshouse to hav my boss arrested for sendinn w Itches after me. They put my eyes out. Have two brothers nnd one sister 111 Buffalo, but dp not know what streets my brothers live on My sister Is Mis. An-t..nl- Mellnskl, and she resides at 203 Cable street. Buffalo. The reason I do not .vish to go to B'lf'alr is lhat a wrltcta came from England thirty years ago and she tells my boss how much money l have p.nd ."he wants to turn me Into a negro. I have $lfi.".r.." |