Show WAITED 27 YEARS N VAIN FOR GIRL OF A BROKEN HEART PIN PRICKED 13 FATAL scrap of paper found n I 1 1 hand cx plains secret of dath D ath organ grinder wins swee hart h art and life s charms cease new york jim ear tle tl e b ind fd ot oraville or kville at di n lo 10 a ou doorstep in att 1 st s 0 t aid sled beci ise h s hea t ton beside him la tl e old P 1 ie 1 at ha 1 been his solace a d live 1 lo 10 3 years and in his hand u s a ot paper p nil id 1 acha d and meaningless to thomp vo fc ird Y m no one suspected trat t e paper held te secief of b 1 J jim s death but it was savea aej lakan with the fiddle to airs domally the woman blind jim has 1 oa ded v fi for 15 years at rot fort ninth street every man women and child in knew and 1 ked the blind her and the reporters seeking a atory besieged mrs donnelly ho had cried strangely when they told her blind jim had ben b en found dead with a scrap of paper in his hand jim s been blind ever since he was ill years old mrs donnelly told them lie was a scotch boy and soon utter his people brought him here he sot sick and the sickness settled in his eyes and jim never saw no more so jim goes to this blind school up on amsterdam avenue he just naturally picked up the fiddle there was a blind girl in one ol 01 his reading classes they say they learned to read and write the raised script to gether and when they left I 1 guess they were pretty fast that was when jim was about 20 and now he s about 47 they wrote to each other queer letters lust sheets ot paper pricked full of holes with a pin like that of paper he had in his hand ever ince they left school these letters came and went every week and sometimes twice a week and 27 years Is a long time daytimes he was out along the street corners all tt e way up through yorkville fiddling away and making a little money and saving it it was the same way at night everybody Lvery body knew clear up to the harlem river he would come in gentle and quiet like and sit down tune up his fiddle and then play the irish jigs that man could play and him b ind and ma vourneen and the of the green and all sorts of things gay and sad but mostly gay blessin s on him A week or so ago he told me that he was soon going to get t ie blind girl from out in jersey 01 wherever sh is v th her folks and bring her here ind set up hous together he wa tl at 1 appy abo it it you d never believe h m being a blind iran he got a letter I 1 saw h m afeei he reads it his face was a g ay as plaster so glad and emiline just a minute before he sticks the I 1 tor in his pocket picks up his fiddle and goes out he placed along the a beet corners all day last night he e vent out this morning wit i ja v ord to me ard ji t as if he I 1 di t know what to do as if there he D ed of a broken heart anything tor him to do any more I 1 think what was the matter he must have sat down to read the last letter that was the one he had in his hand I 1 guess there was something in it that just broke his heart but I 1 don t know what it was then they took the scrap of pin pricked paper up to the school in am avenue and had it read this was the letter jim got from the girl in jersey that broke his heart dear jim you must not wait for me any longer I 1 ve married the other one I 1 m sorry jim but he played the organ so beautiful MAGGIE well I 1 guess I 1 abow now said mrs donnelly when they told her women are queer critters blind 01 seeing an say nobody can tell me that that other teller could play the organ any more beautiful than blind jimmae could play his little old fiddle he waited 27 years for that girl and 27 years Is a long time |