The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-12-26
TURNED OUT OF DOORS
And Started on the Road TO the
POOrhOuse
WAS A VERY SICK WOMAN

According to Her Story aud That of
Her Former LandIady, Mrs. Sophia
Myers, Who Seemed Pleased Over
Who Is Soon TO Become a Mother
The Husband In the workhouse-A
Pitiful Case.
A pitiful situation has Just come to
light. Mrs. Flora Fulk for the past tn rec
years has been living at No. 216 East
Ninth street, renting the house of a Mrs.
Sophia Myers. This month Mrs. Fulk got
in arrears and when Mrs. Myers learned
that Mrs. Fulk was being helped by the
township trustees, she became alarmed.
She asked the trustees If they would pay
her So a month for the place. They de-
clined doing so, hut said they would take
Mrs. Fulk to the inflrmary. Mrs. Myers
then notified the infirmary directors to
move the tenant, as she wanted the house.
Mrs. Fulk, being in very delicate con-
dition protested. She had been in bed for
two days and could scarcely stand. Mrs.
Myers was firm and told the in1rmary
men to proceed. A compromise was
finally made by taking Mrs. Fulk TO her
mother, Mrs. Frank Walters, who resides
at No. n North Market street.
A News-Democrat reporter called on
Mrs. Myers, who lives at No, 293 East
Ninth street. She said the foregoing
story was In the main, true. Mrs. Fulk,
she said, had been paying So month for
the house, but that she was now over two
months in arrears. Knowing that Mrs.
Fulk was about to be confined, she feared
that If she was not moved before conflne-
ment, she Mrs. Myers) would have to
keep her all winter. 81 went to the town
ship tpustees," said she, land had her
moved to the place provided for such peo-
pie" Mrs. Myers seemed quite pleased at
what she had accomplished, and laughed
when she was told the neighbOrs were
somewhat interested in the affair.
The reporter called on a number of the
former neighbors of Mrs. Fulk, and they
all united in saying she was a quiet,
peaceable, industrious woman. They were
equally unanimous In condemuing the
action of Mrs. Myers.
Mrs. Fulk was then ,lled on. She was
found at her mothers residence on North
Market street, and was looking poorly.
On being told the object of the call, Mrs.
Fulk looked the reporter in the eye and
said: "The statements of Mrs. Myers are
false and can prove It " She then pro-
duced receipts to show the rent had been
paid up to the middle of November; that
the rent was So a month instead Of 80,
and that only about 81 was due Mrs
Myers.
Mrs. Fulk said that sho knew nothing
of Mrs. Myers Intentions until the in
firmary ambulance came and knowing
nothing about law thought she was COM
PEELED to yield up the house. Her two
children, aged thirtoen and seven years,
were taken from her and she was COM
PEELED to leave the house, and all her fur
niture behind her. Her furniture was
afterward taken to her mothers but her
children are srlll away from her. Mrs.
Fulk does not blame the inflrmary men,
but says II Mrs. Myers had only told her
her Intentions, she could have arranged
to keep her small family together.
Mrs, Frank Walters, Mrs. Fulk s
mother, was highly indignant over the
transaction. She said that II she had
known of the affair beforehand she
would have paid the rent herself, though
she Is poor woman.
Hiram l. Fulk, Mrs. Fulk's husband
was sent 10 the work x-house some time
ago for abusing his family and his term
will not expire till january 26. Mrs
Fulk win not live with him, because Of
his evil inollnations.
Her situation Is most pitiful, Her chill
dren are now with Mrs s. J. Welsh, ol
West Seventh street, and arc being wei
taken care Of, But the little girl cries fol
her mother, and nothing seems TO paoifS
her.