Inter-Mountain Republican | 1908-10-24 | Page 8 | Once Wealthy Woman Found Starving in Lot

ONCE WEALTHY VEAL THY WOMAN WO FOUND STARVING ST IN LOT Used Fortune to Pay Husbands Husband's Husbands Husband's Husbands Husband's Hus Hus- bands band's Debts When He Died Bankrupt Washington ton Oct 23 Mrs Rebecca E. E Mitchell daughter of or Dr Richard S. S Nathan second president of or Hobart collo college e. e N X N. Y and widow of a once wealthy wealth merchant of this tIlls city was found starving and und destitute b by a n policeman po po- po- po on a n vacant lot In Brightwood a Q small smal suburb of ot Washington r revived d at a station a aIn JJ n dl i a notified tI tier Her friends cro andare carIng car car- In log Ing for Pride and sensitiveness camo Came clo close cloie e eto to causing the death eath of Mrs Mitchell Her friends tried to find a homo home for tor her but hut she rebelled I belong tc of oC tho Ito first tam families Illes of Washington I have havo gone gono ono In the best of or social circle and I will never enter an institution or home All 1 want Is a chance chanco to work worl sho she told toM them Mrs Mitchells Mitchell's husband was once m I we well known merchant In Washington One day a his firm failed and he be u iI t. t head of oC the time house died a n few months Inter later leaving his widow thousands thousand dollars In iii debt Mrs Irs Mitchell lItchen nad a fortune In her own name but iUt sio se used It to pay her debts