| Show rn Y eRi I 11 IY Z YU P li 1 r r tda i fF Ili v tr x I Sisters se J M ef 1 11 Y In la Mortgages f lo IRd rii lank Bak Deposits p NEW YORK T T The wizened old d lady lad slowly lowly climbed down the three flights to tali t a neighbors neighbor's neighbor tenement t apartment knocked timidly on the thedoor thedoor door and when the neighbor ap ap asked for a cup of coffee Delia Edwards 67 87 had bad been doing this for many man a day so it was to make conversation that the neighbor Mrs Mary Mar Bennett asked Hows How your brother Miss Mill pellet Pella Still sun sipping the hot coffee and pulling her old sweater weater tighter about her to fight fi ht off ort the cold cold the woman muttered I think Charlies Charlie's dead Hasn't moved since Saturday Calls Calla for Priest Pried Mrs Bennett immediately called caned caneda a priest who climbed the dank stair stair- staircase case into the squalor of the Ed Ed- Edwards wards apartment There the priest saw the withered wintered body of Charles Charle Edwards 77 covered with an old- old fashioned nightgown kneeling on the floor beside his unmade bed his hi head buried burled in his hands bands in an atti atti- attitude attitude tude of 01 prayer In another dusty duty bedroom piled plied with yellowed newspapers newspaper and re re- re remains remains mains of unfinished meals meal lay Miss Anna Edwards Edwardl 89 69 pleading for food took The priest pried called police poUce The police po po- po lice physician studied the ancient figure kneeling as if in supplication He took out his hll card and wrote Dead on arrival Natural causes cause Unearth Fortune The women were taken to Kings County hospital where doctors docton dlag diagnosed nosed Anna Edwards ailment as 81 malnutrition The neighbors talked They said ald the had lived In such uch poverty as long as 81 they could re re- re remember remember member And they recalled that the only extravagance the ever Indulged in was Delias Delia's custom of occasionally slipping out to buy an anIce ice cream cone after her brother i had bad lone gone to bed Soon the detectives detective came In desultory fashion they dusted dueled off the documents and papers paper that lit Ut- Uttered lit lit- littered the Brooklyn Coldwater flaO flat Then they stopped short than short For underneath ail an the rubbish were banknotes listing Usting In la deposits and an mortgages mortgagee and bonds bond valued at |
