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Show STARVING iUiibAin IN CITY Policeman Finds Pitiful Case of Destitution and Starvation New York, Juno 10. The emaciated and almost lifeless form of a woman at the window of a tenement lodging in West Forty-seventh street caused a policeman to enter last night, and he found a pitiful case of destitution and starvation. The woman was Mrs. Thomas Corhett and she and her husband hus-band and father, Jacob Klrchgesson-gcr, Klrchgesson-gcr, nad been in the house without food since Saturday. The father, almost al-most a skeleton, was unconscious on tho floor in one room, while Corbett, in another room, was too weak to help himself. The woman had struggled to the window in the hope of attracting help. She said that many months of Idleness on the part of her husband, due to i 11-nesn 11-nesn and the physical disability of herself her-self and her father, had reduced them to starvation. The last crust of bread was divided among them on Saturday and since then they had remained in the house growing 'steadily w eaker. The father was sent to a hospital where it w-aa said that he was likely to die, and a physician and nurse were called in to attend Corbett and his wife. |