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Show WHITE-HAIRED OLD Mi DIES OF STARVATION WAS A TAILOR AND HAD JUST BEGUN BE-GUN TO WORK ON GARMENT. His Fingers Had Hardly Grasped the Needle When Ho Fell Over Lifeless. New York, Feb. 20. A white-haired old man died of starvation yesterday in a tailor shop In Orchard street Only a few minutes before, he had been found sitting on a bench, in a park by the foreman of the shop. .."Are; you a tailor?" asked the foreman. fore-man. "Yes," replied the old man feebly. The foreman then volunteered" to give him work and together they went to the tailor shop. The old man started to work. on a garment, but hardly had. 'his fingers grasped the needle when ho fell over dead. There were no papers pa-pers in the old man's pockets that would lead to his identification, except a letter written in Yiddish |