Salt Lake Telegram | 1950-03-27 | Page 2 | 2 Elderly Sisters, 1 Found in N. Y

t 2 Elderly Sisters 1 Ded I Found in NY I NEW V YORK March 27 Up UP p Two elderly widowed sisters one of them dead were found in a aI I junk filled room four-room flat on the upper west side Sunday The surviving sister was Incoherent incoherent inco inco- herent when police pollee edged their I way through hundreds of cardboard cardboard cardboard card card- board boxes books magazines and assorted odds and ends piled more than four feet high The flat had b been cn the home of the sisters Mrs Frances Richter 65 and Mrs Margaret Hahn 63 for three years Neighbors said that although at one time they owned two houses in the neighborhood neighborhood neighborhood neigh neigh- they lived in recent years on home relief Mrs Richter cared for her ailing sister and often left the flat to shop Mrs Hahn never was seen to leave and Friday was the first time strangers had entered An unanswered note left in the thedoor thedoor thedoor door asking permission for workmen workmen workmen work work- men to inspect the fixtures caused the superintendent to call police They found Mrs Hahn kitchen talking incoherent n tj body of Mrs 1 Richter was large double bed Mrs Hahn said her si si I suffered from a stomach fc- fc and died Saturday after She was unable to give an r She was taken 1 to Belle pital pita for observation