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Show TO SAVE FLOWEB. BOY " ' FBOM POTTEB'S FIELD 3 . LOS ANGELES. Cal.. April 27. A poor, half-witted flower boy of Los Angeles An-geles rave hie all to the San Francisco sufferers and on Sunday he gave his life.- i Han.- Caldwell, known at the Hotel Green lat Paaden and to many klnd-hearte klnd-hearte women of Los Angeles as a hatPrtTf jf" and pathetic character, who . has thl3vprlng suffered tortures from a dlseaaeJf-hand, worked his weak brain arad body to death while selling papers and flowers for charity. It is learned from Mrs. A. Raventos, wife of the florist at 216 Mercantile place, that Caldwell was extraordinarily extraordinar-ily affected by the reports of suffering in San Franclaco. He worked early t and late, tramping the city to every I customer he could remember.' and he i turned in all he made for four days to i the relief , committees. On Sunday he fell tn convulsions and died almost at ' one. i Mrs. Raventos Is trying to collect a ; modest Bum to .bury the poor body j decently. "He was a kindly lad," she i. M.t.d. and he should jnot go' to the pot- ' ter'a field. I think If some of the ladles who bought his flowers only knew, they would keep him from It." |