Show WOMAN STAYS IN L ROOM 60 YEARS 1 Leaves Room for Funeral I i for First Time Since 1860 I I HANCOCK N. N Y NOV Nov Z 9 In In the of l 60 Hancock received i spring an anI I announcement of the engagement of one otie of Its most prominent young women women wom worn en 1 Miss Fannie Fannic M. M Read to a lieutenant lieutenant lieu lieu- I tenant In ip the regular army The wedding wedding wed wl- ding date was made known soon aft aft- afterward erward erwald and then came the report that t Iter fer er father objected to the match and andI would not permit 1 the marriage da If I Heartbroken r rn r Miss Read e took an n oath that she SIlO never would be seen outside I her loon loom again She locked herself in her chamber and only onty opened the thedoor thedoor door when brought her meals That was in 1561 and since then Miss Re Ro ri i has existed merely In name Las Las' week the womans woman's brother E. E Darwin larwin Read Head died The funeral was lold held Satur Saturday The last coach was ready really to leave the house when the thedoor thedoor thedoor door opened and Miss Read now 78 years old and feeble appeared on the porch She Slie walked slowly to the carriage carriage carriage car car- glancing to neither right nor left ignored the hand of a woman who was her playmate in childhood md ind rede away awny to the tho cemetery Upon her I home she Phe went again to tho ilic room where she has stayed since th first v year far ar of oC the Civil war and locked lockel the door |