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Show CHESTERFIELD ITT BAGS DIES STARVING NEW YORK, Feb. 28.-Pride of ancestry ances-try and abhorrence of dependence upon others caused William Simpson, M years -old. delicately reared and finely educated, to drink himself to death In a corner of the farm of Patrick Cummings, at Hun-terfly Hun-terfly road and Clarkson street, Flatbueh. The man's body, frosen stiff after days of exposure, has been found, and Dr. Cush-man Cush-man of Kings County hospital, said death had been caused by starvation. Simpson didn't need to starve. He dldts't have to do without shelter. Cnmmlngta, for whom he had worked, was compelleM to lay him off for a couple of weeks b4- ' cause of hard times, but had told hi V that the barn, containing blankets. wu open to him. and that the larder ot tft ' . farmhouse was equally available. Simpson's high, calm forehead showed no wrinkle. He bowed in a courtly manner, man-ner, the farmer says, and went to the barn to sleep. For a few days he accepted thla shelter, but several times was heard to complain about the indignity Fate waa heaping upon him. A few days later the man disappeared. Simpson, who, according to those whe -knew him. was educated to an almost exquisite ex-quisite point, and whose old clothes were cared for by him as If he were expecting every minute to be Invited to a salon, will probably be burled In potter's Held, as he never told anyone that he had a relative living. What the man's former occupation was le a matter of conjecture, but he would undoubtedly have graced a ballroom. He wae a Chesterfield In rags. |