The evening times., 1895-10-07
NOW BEYOND PERSECUTION
Remains of Miss Julia Mangin
Buried in Mount Olivet.
Her Dying Hours Disturbed by the
Cruel Treatment of q Heart
less landlord.

The funeral OF Miss Julia Mangin, who
died at No. 9O8 Twentieth street north
west, last Saturday as the result, her rela-
tives allege, of a shock caused by the
heartless and cruel treatment OF the land
lord, as told exclusively in to-day's Morn
ing Times, took place from st. Stephens
Church this morning at O'Clock.
Father O'Connell said the mass, and all
that was mortal of the unfortunate woman
was quietly inferred in Mount Olivet Gem
etery. 81
The publication of the facts connected
with the sad affair hal aroused the greatest
indignation in the neighborhood, and all
day scores OF people have visited the house
on Twentieth street. 1t is three-story
brick structure in a respectable neighbor-
hood, and all OF the windows have been
raised and nailed up and ali the doors, front
and inside, have been torn from their hinges.
The door which was not removed was
the one which closed the room in which
Miss Mangin died. The Mangins, three in
number, moved into the house last June,
subletting two rooms on the third floor.
Julie was then ill and was removed to the
house from the Columbian Hospital, where
she had been for several months previous.
A short time ago the people from whom
the Aangins sublet the rooms decided to
move out of the house. Miss Julia was
was then too i'll to be moved and DR.. Shaw.
who was attending her, informed her Sis
ters IL they attempted to remove her, they
would do SO against his will, and would
have to assume all risks.
The doctor then stated that it was his
opinion that Miss Mangin was in such q
weak state that even carrying her down
stairs would kill her. This fact was COM
municated TO the landlord of the premises,
but he insisted against all persuasions that
the woman must be moved, and Immediately.
This the tenants refused to do
In revenge, Miss Mangin asserts, the
landlord has from time to time gone to
the house with a number of men, nailed up
the windows, pulled down the doors, and
made very noisy demonstrations.
The sick woman and her sister were very
much alarmed by these outbreaks, and the
former continued, under the excitement and
strain OF the attacks, TO grow steadily
worse
The landlord and his party weres SO demon
strative that finally the police We're sent
for and he as warned to desist
The patient died On Saturday, and her
sister insists that the end was hastened
and made certain by the shock and the ex-
poSure undergone in the windowless and
doorless house.
The landlord a few days ago sent several
colored men to the house to tear down the
WdllS OF tue room III WHICH tut Wbllldu Id
dying. The police were notified and stopped
this proceeding.
Then" said she, 1.-The landlord with two
colored men called and to Id me to either
get out or he would throw US out. l
begged and pleaded with him, but that did
not move him. So getting in our bedroom,
] blocked up the door with a bed and trunk.
He ordered the men to tear down the door.
and with my sister meaning in the bed the
men banged on the door and tried to tear
it out. Seeing they could not force it they
went through the house and took out every
door, turned Off the gas and drove nails
into the windows, which he had raised
II have even been afraid to go out for
food lest the landlord should come in and
drag out my effects, and worse than all
my poor, dear, sick. and now dead sister.
when the temperature became low
and the chilly winds whistled through the
house we had to wrap ourselves in every
conceivable piece of cloth In our room and
then could not keep warm"
Supt. Wilson. OF the Humane Society,
will thoroughly investigate the case.