| Show ELD WIFE IN ARMS 3 DAYS SAD FATE OF ONCE WELL TO DO 00 TOLO TOLD BY DEATH TOO PROUD TO ASK HELP aged husbard almost starved ab he K kneel kneels it at side of old helpmeet and prey prays want wants to die alco also new york beside hie his dying wife N Ir ginta ill james es raymond 70 year years ir old knelt in a hall bedroom in bath beach for three days be he had remained there there was vas no medicine no money no food at times it was fo so cold he wrapped his wife in bla his threadbare t h r overcoat to keep her b er warm for 60 years thia this man and woman ehe she two years hie his junior had been to gether on christmas day he wanted to go in search of work but jut she he begged him to remain she knew that hat t it was war her last christina christmas all day and all night he held her tn in his arms while the fever ever took her hack back to earlier boll holl das da a ahen hen there aas as plenty at their command for three days he held her at a few minutes past three in tho the morning eho she died but the bus hus band did not know that ha lie had slipped from the chair to bla his knees and was praying thus he remained until seven before he realized that bla his life bad fled bed then bla his brave old olk spirit broke lie ile did not wish to tell his landlady the truth though she had permitted him to remain in the room after bis his money had bad gone he ile totter tottered cd to the bath dath beach police station and begged kennedy to help him the lieutenant sent for a physician who took ray mond homo home and got another room for far him in the house before informing the coroner when x wagon from the morgue backed up to the bouse house to take the body away the aged man left his hl bed As the body was borno borne out he followed to the sidewalk begging piteously to be taken along he lie borrowed five live centa from mrs bates the landlady and went to the morgue to remain at the side of hia his wife he refused to leave the place until the morgue keeper told him they would bold hold the body for three days in order that be he might get money with which to bury bis his wife instead of seeing her go to tho the potters field raymond at one time was a con tractor and made much money abrou rh large building operations on 0 its m alwer west side the police lev learned aed that bis his brother knelt beside body i john raymond was still hing h ing in manhattan the men quarreled many years ago and james was too proud to ask for aid when misfortune overtook him nor would be he appeal to a well todo to do sister in law who lives on adelphi street brooklyn twenty five years ago james and virginia raymond adopted a girl she lived with them and bared shared in their vicissitudes until two years ago when she he was married mrs bates mies aid said tho the couple bad had lived la in her house for several weeks and that ebe the bai had not the heart to put them out even though they could not pay she added that until mrs lips raymond became seriously ill the old man bad had searched diligently every everyday day for work but came home every night more inore broken la in spirit they tell mo mu im too old to be of any use be he would w wall all one day ho he fell in he the street from beer sheer exhaustion and hunger w when hen endeavoring to perform a little J job ab he had picked up raymond after leaving the morgue resolutely refused to give the address of his relatives rala tives it they want to help me I 1 am not too proud now to accept it but I 1 am still too proad to ask eald said he be it I 1 cant ralee raise the money to bury her all I 1 want la Is to follow her |
