Show BIRD FANCIER IS FOUND DEAD IN DINGY ROOM always preferred feathered tribe to society of humans philadelphia the families that live in Fern bet bei avenue knew old michael Grofe hick as the man who alio liked birds better than he did deop people ae ite ile used to say to them the birds they are better always they are happy but people and he would shrug his shoulders that was the reason michael lived among the birds never a wife never a friend lived with him but the three rooms of his little house bouse it looks like a bird cage itself were piled with crates in which michael kept the canaries he be raised tor for the pet stores recently the neighbors found michael dead in the second story room of the house from a hundred cages I 1 41 I 1 the body was sprawled on the floor lined against the wall canaries were chattering possibly because they had breakfast yet sprawled on floor michaels heart had bad ceased beating as he be was on his way to open the window the body was sprawled on the floor midway between the bed and the smudgy panes of glass it was little the police found in the house except supplies for the birds there were rm canaries at least and grain enough fortham for them but on the first floor aside from the cages there were only a table a cabinet a chair a chromo of the ascension and a row of blue ribbons that michaels birds had won him in the second floor room was a bed with a tattered comforter and more cages the attic was lined with crates that was all on the downstairs table was a loaf of bread and a package of coffee the only food in the house michael spend much on his table the neighbors confided it all went to the birds |