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Show BBBBBBBBBBBBEHBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBHHMHHHHHBBBBBBHMHsf MAKES LIVING BY FEIGNING ILLNESS. UNUSUAL TJODOE OF NEW YORK YOUNG WOMAN. TAKES EASE AMONG SICK. Msket Believe She Is Taken Suddenly III, Then Hurried to HoiplUI Old Game of Falling from t Street Cars Worn Out. Troy N Y Nellie Cummlngs one of tho nimes given to young woman who goes about Ihe cojntry beating Ihe world out of a living ued tc be In the builnes of getting hurt Ah ' would fall off n street car He In an I apparently semi conscious condition In a hospital and flnilly when at Inst sho recovered sufficiently to talk would tell of the loss ot a fat pure Traction companies settled to avoid suits Hut It came about that she be-camo be-camo too Well known to work tint gatno any longer, nnd after making a mess ot It In several places ihi apparently ap-parently tried somen here else She( arrived In Illngham recently nnd gavo a sample of her new game there al though she Is known In that city and' vicinity This, according to a newspa per of that city. Is how It happemd i Hhortly before eight o clock last nlgbt the ticket agent at the Lack nwanna station telephoned the has pltal and stated to the superlntindcnt that ho had received a messigi from a point east of here stating that n young lady had been taken seriously 111 on train No 5 aud asking that an ambulance "be provided to take her to tho hospital as soon as the train ar rived at the local station The nm bulnnco was on hand when the train arrived at the depot Tho sick girl proved to be Miss Cummlngs 8ho wns very very sick from all appearance and the trip from tho station to the hospital was made In quick time the driver fearing that his charge might die In tho wagon beforo he got her to the hospital Nellie lived to be taken upstairs and ploctd In u nice, soft bed, however, and sho wns also nlhe when Mrs llryden questioned her na to tho na turo ot her Illness 'Oh, I am so sick," said Nellie "I have had n terrible hemorrhage from my stomach I ought nut to have at tomptcd tho Journe) 1 havo Just been discharged from tho Hooievi.lt hos pltal In Now York, nnd I thought that I was strong enough to mnko the trip All ot this was spoken In whlipora and punctuated with groans and sobi Mrs Ilr den wss beginning to feci real sorry for this poor unfortunate and homeless girl Hut when she ex nmlned Ihe patient she failed to find anything tho matter with her, 'It may bo a bad case of Imaglna Hon thought Mrs llryden and. msk. Ing the girl comfortable for the night, she left her Among Nellies effects she found a large quantity of fruit and she thought that Ihe girl hlghl have been sick and Imagined that she hnd had a hemorrhage hem-orrhage or something equally IntereiU Ing x It Is n rule at Ihe city hnspltali, the same as at all well regulatod In. stltutlons for those In clnrgo to makn an Insiectlon of tho effects of all trangers who nre brought In during the night This Is dono so that no claim can lie made by patients that The "Hoipltil Dum" Simulating III. nets, they have lost money or other valuables val-uables while left In the enro of the matron It wak evident that Nellie had not figured on this tor Mr llr)ilen found among other things a number of ccr tlllcates and cards from which sho learned that Nellie had been an In-mato In-mato of nearly every hospital and dispensary In Now York Tho flrat of theso cards dates back for months, anil It soon became clear to Mrs Dry den that Nellie wm a hospital bum' and that sho has mndo u business ot ' tooling tho hospital superintendents In tho city. It's n nice, caiy way to mako a living liv-ing All )ou havo to do Is to throw a fit, fall from nn clovatcd train or get Injured In tho crush nt tho Hrooklya brldgo or In tho subway. Then you loso consciousness and aro Immediate-. .--. . ly hustled to tho nearuit hoipsL , " While you nro recovering you (akfMlfo easy. |