The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-08-31
DEATH AMONG STRANG.
Frs.
Did shat Woman on Nam. Street
DIE Of Starvation and
Neglect.

residence of NJ. Hathaway, on las,
Main street, rad come to her death
from starvation, BAzoO represen-
tative started yesterday TO ascertain
the truth ia regard tn it.
He first met the daughter of de
ceased at the depot. en- route for her
home in st. Louis. aud in response {"
inquiries. elected the following As
THE DAUGHTERS STORY
in regard to the case. The daughter.
whose name is Mary Meyer. and whose
home is at 80 Guver avenue, ~.
Louis, said:
NV mothers husband, Peter Eb-
erlv, left her nine years ago. .She
had heard nothing al him until re-
Gently, when she learned he was in So
daIia and owned property here AMI
along the line of the new harrow
guagc railroad. She came here IT,
try and have him give her 4 share of
the property. If he should refuse To
come back and live with her.
She came here three months ago,
and found Eberlv who promised he
would give her money. She saw INN
but once and was unable to find him
again. He gave her no money.
About FIVE weeks agD she WAS taken
sick. She was thrown out of the
house she occupied north of the rail.
road in this city on account %: not
paving the rent. and MIR. Watts. a
wagon-maker Oh Main street. offered
TO give her room rent gratis, in back
rooms, above the wagon shop. if she
would cook for him, he furnishing the
provisions. AS she was In almost
destitute circumstances she accepted
the offer, and began living in thai
way. She was taken severely III
with malarial fever, which was fol
lowed by Il stroke Of paralysis and she
died yesterday.
She was removed from Watts room
by Mrs. Hathaway. To her house, about
one week before she died. My mother
said, on her death-bed, that the cause
of her death was that she did not
get enough to eat during her las;
sickness. She also said that she had
been four days without food week be.
fore last. She asked that :, iiearse he
procured to convey her to the grave,
as she did not want TO be hauled
to the grave in Il wagon at the ex.
pense of the county. Mother was Is
yeaIs of age. was her only child
Had l known she was in such desii
tute condition would have relieved
her wants, though | am very poo.
myself.
The reporter then called and heard
Mr.. WATTS VERSION OF THE GAZE
He was, at first reluctant in talk
ing about it until the reporter told
him that he hah heard on the street
that the woman was starved 10 death
while in his rooms, after which b,
said /: "WhCever says she starved "a
death. is id lying s-of b.
gave that woman room rent, gratis
because she came to me IN destitut.
SvIs,litivn, say ing siaC L.,'i U.cn tIIIowI
out of a house for not paving rent
That she had applied to The mayor TO
assistance, and that he refused it.
gave her house rent because | consil
cred her an object OF charity. | al
WAYS treated her well. She WAS to d
the cooking and l furnished provis
ions. | went to the mayor in her he
half. She became very sick and Mrs
Hathaway took her to her house wher'
she died. think the cause of he
death was that her daughter and Mrs
Hathaway fed her too much while he
system was SO frail tina. it could no
, stand it. | did nv duty by her, n
matter what the neighbors say"
The reporter then called "n
MRS. HATHAWAY
! who corroborated the daughters state
, ment as to the deceased saving on he
. death bed that she had been starved &
I death, did not desire Ia be barred h
: the county, etc.
DH KIHG,
who had been the attendant phv -iciar
said to the reporter, There WAS r.,
nance connected with that case. -,
/ ceased had been fDr manv wears .;
| active member Of Catholic chariiai.
! society, called. think. The Sisters &,
Charity for Little ChiIdnn,' or III
, sisters Oh the poor She had devote
|, years TO caring for the sick and des'
tute, vet she died here among s,rans
' ers and almost in destitute circan
stances. She had been a woman .
rare beauty, and age and poverty ba
!, not entirely erased The marks of bea,
2 ty from her features. Her disea,
. was at first a malaria: fever, foll"we
by paralysis. don't think scarci,
/, /, of food or want of attention had an,
, thing TO do with her death. While d
, Hathaway's she had splendid. attic,
ton. knew nothing of the case M
: ffdnf &Yas f-knSI the case I i a::
think want Of food or attention alicc
ed it in the least. | am acquainte
with Peter Eberly, the repuied hu
P band of the deceased. He is a man {
considerable property"
After the death. Officer Schenewer
being told of her desire TO I've burie
in hearse, procured one at his ow
expense, and the last wish of the poo
sister of charity was gratified, All
she now sleeps where charity Is M
needed and want is unknown.
i The Poor Pedsgogue.