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Show A JIIMEIfS DEATH Sbe nir from Marsatlon nllll rtlehr In Her loclon. Xnv Yohk-, Oct. 14. Public Administrator W. IS. Davenport of Brooklyn has in his possession 31:31.53 in cash and some Jewelry, consisting of a gold watch and chain and several gold rings the efiectsof I-therUammerstcinf who Ji'-d at 63 Dean Street, Brooklyn.on September SOth. Mrs. Hammer-stein Hammer-stein was a raiser, so deeply attached at-tached to her gold that she suUered slow, lingering death from starvation starva-tion rather tlian part with money to purchaso the necessaries or lire. One or her neighbors says she refused re-fused to spend a cent above what lie paid for rent. 55 a month, for two rear rooms on the top floor cf the tenement houu whire she died. The woman cams to tills country with her husband from Poland many .years ago. Hammerstein Is said to have been a soldier in the civil war. The couple, with their only child. Loui, settled in ilrook-lyn. ilrook-lyn. The husband was killed eighteen eigh-teen years ago by a fall, and left his wife and boy penniless. A benevo lent society, of which Hammerstein was a member, paid his funeral expenses. ex-penses. The widow hired roomi in the Dean Street house about five years ago. When her son was old enough to work he did what he could to help his mother. While In the employ of a big Urooklyu dry -oods iioue his health failed, and la the summer of 1S53 the Hebrew Benevolent Association obtained for him a vacation, and gave him a sum of money to pay his expenses at the seaside. He died or consumption consump-tion on January 2J, 1S03, at the age cf twenty-five. As the mother grew older she drew her iiurse strings tighter than ever, and could not be induced to purchase food of any kind. She lived on what she gathered from boxes and barrels at corner groccr-ij. groccr-ij. Very often her pitiable condition condi-tion Induced Wm. llirney, Janitor of the house, and other inmates, who were all poor enough themselves, them-selves, to glvo her loaves of bread oraoupor tea or coffee. Blumenan aad several other mem-ben mem-ben of the association looked over thewoman's cflects In htrsqualid SnSnts, and tbediscoveria. that they made astounded them. JSo mwrs were found, except some old JS notices. Wrapped uragun--i.h miltres! on which tne un-tewShadslolystarv un-tewShadslolystarv STe oThefrawef J ricUtr bureau tho searchers round creen cloth. The book showed that JTsT had I beeh deposited since 1S57, watclVanTcltaln and vl gold been endeavoring to findtucnexi 'of Lin. |
