Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-05-28
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Charles Leman, asturay, white- haired
German II q years, supported his IL
year-old wife, Elizabeth, for two months
at the cheap double tenement at 3i5
East Seyenty-fifth street By the wages
be earned IS night Watchman over ; row
u new buildings. When the uildings
we're completed last January he could
get no more work. They told him he
was too old. The couple were allowed
to live In their small apartments Tor four
months without paying any rent, but on
May the landlord dispossessed them.
They had no relatives to appeal to for
aid, and their battered furniture re-
NAMED il tie street "a front Of the
house for five days.
Mrs. Miller, the German housekeeper,
who had often pleaded for the old couple
with the landlord, and got him to con-
sent to let them remain SO long with the
rent unpaid, gave them food from her
own table and kept them from starving.
There we're two vacant front rooms on
the second floor, and on Wednesday she
told her husband that she could not
stand seeing the poor people living on
the street any longer, and would put
them in the vacant apartments and pay
the rent herself if new tenants offered TO
take the rooms. On Wednesday she
asked another tenant to carry the furni-
ture In from the street and to rig up
stove. She gave him fifty cents for
the service, and told the old watchman
he could have the use Of the stove as
long as he wantedeit. The old watch
man kissed Mrs. Miller's hand IN graf
itude.
son, you have done something for
me that / didn't expect" he said with
deep emotion, ''and You shall not suffer.
have just got another Job, and will
pay you next Monday"
On Friday the old Waterman told his
wife that he was not so sure about the
Job. He had found out that he was
likely TO miss the job after all, because
he was so old. He was very Respondent,
and his wife became so depressed that
she couldn't eat cheap steak she had
cooked. She gave the whole OF It TO
woman who lived in the rear of the tene-
ment who had three children dependent
upon her. When the old watchman had
been earning good wages, and even after
in the habit Of sharing whatever food
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latter was even poorer than she.
The old Waterman came home grief
stricken on Friday night. He had been
told finally that he was too old to do the
work he bad counted upon. he had q
package Of Paris green in his pocket.
He had bought it at paint shop for q
few pennies on the plea that he wanted
70 kill some rats. He mixed enough in
o battered china cup TO kill about half 9
dozen people. When his wife had re-
tired be gave her some as she lay in bed
and then drained the cup himself. They
we're seized with violent convulsions, but
nobody wenA to their aid. The other
tenants thought the old mn had been
drinking heavily to drown bis grief, and
attributed the noise IN the rooms to his
intoxication.
On Sunday afternoon, after q whole
day had passed and no one had stirred in
the locked rooms, Mrs. Miller called
Policeman Smith, who broke open the
door. The chairs were upset and the
old watchman's dead body lay among
them on the floor. His head was against
i barrel, il which an old broken lamp.
battered tins and old clothes were indis-
criminately heaped His wife ley dead
ia the old bed in the inner room. a
crust Of brown bread was on the table
beside q cup encrusted with stains Of
Paris green. Near by was little time
worn leather purse, with nothing IN it.
Some old books, including German
Bible. were in the drawers Of q cheap
bureau that stood against the wall.
Coroner Kennedy came il the afternoon
and erffora6 the hef1iea 20 be buried In
Potters Field.