The times., 1897-12-26
SHE DIED In SQUALOB
Misery Hag's Miserable Death on
Christmas Day.
Accepted Aid From Neighhors AL
though Her Bank Account
Was Large.

New York, Dec. 25.-Men and women
who had provided Mrs. Joseph Bose
with food and money and clothes because
she was seventy years old and said are
would probably starvc before the Christ
mas holidays were over, talked angrily of
ler last nIciit, though it was Christmas
Eve and the old woman lay dead in her
home i'll BROOKLYN.
Death had ievealed tie fact that she was
one of the most miserable of misers, ;nd,
dead though she was, neighlors who had
given 10 her from their own scant stoIes
for sweet CHART Us sake, hesita:ei To
forgive her when they learned that in
silver and gosd and notes, curiously hidden
away III her Nretched rooIus and IN Ce-
post i'll "a wings hanks. the woman .vhose
piteous pleading Won their aid had $4,000
OF her own.
They recalled with bitterness that he
buried hel husband in his Oldest cloths,
and sold those W hich were better, slying
she must have food. They believed II tien
and pitied lcr. Last night they knew tGat
Bose when he died left money enough 20
support her for more years than She could
expect TO live
The woman never spoke OF her pa * - My
of her poverty. Bose was a carpenter,
veteran OF the war of the rebellion lis
wife was an English woman. While tie
carpenter lived he and his wife occupied
the top floor of the house II No. l spencer
street BrooElvn. lie was her second nus
hand. she was his third wife. Mean, as
the ncighnors knew she was before Lis
death. they lived comfortably.
Bose tod Patrick DOYLE, the Landlord,
that :, hen hc died his wife would ~ y eli
provided fol. But when Bose did lie, five
Tnonths ago. Mis-. Bose tcld the Oayles
she did not have sheet to cover him. ard
the Doyles. warm hearted folk, sea: Up
some of theirs. Yesterday two dozen new
sheets were found hidden in the old woraan'S
Rooms.
Avowing that she could pay rent no
longer after her husband died, Mrs. lose
gave up all of the top floor except two
small Rooms, and appealed for aid 50 kan
Kin Pest al the Grand A my and TO the
Rev. Mr.. Miller, of the De Kalb Avenue
Methodist Church. Both responded hher-
ally. Mr.. Miller said last night that within
the last few wears his church lad gwen
Mrs. Bose at least $1,000 To. buy food and
fire.
She bought NO. food. In fact, she bought
nothing, but lived on what the DoyleS, Miss
Meyers, who lives on the top floor also,
and other persons gave her, after they
had heard her piteous stories of want.
Miss Meyers cooked her meals on the
stove in the old woman's rooms and gave
her food in return for the privilege. Mrs,
Bose took the food, and daily added to
her hoard the money which was given to
her in charity.
While she was able, the old woman did
washing for some of the neighbOrs, " no
paid her literally. accepting her willing
ness to work-oid "a she was-1s riOof
of her dire neoG. The money was hidden
10y the miScr, who daily asked Gor more.
She began 10 suffer from commissions
several weeks ago and Mrs. Doyle sent
for a doctor He would not come, "a yinG
she had moi paid him for attending her
husband and had not paid the undertaken
who buried him The neighbors tholgnt
the doctor hare hearted until yesterday.
Mrs Bose talk ed NEST pitifully as Christ
mas approached and Ter appeals openel
many hearts. On Thursday night Grand
-AiiilN INdn " no udu hlOh IL nGT UuSDinl
called on her and left a So bill. that ,he
might be comfortable until after tue hol-
iday
Miss Meyers, going TO Mrs. Bosses rooms 1
yesterday morning at 6 O'Clock to cook |
food on the stove they used in common, |
found the old woman lying in bed, ap- |
parently dead. She summoned a physician, |
but before lie came Mrs. Bose, VITO, it |
was found, had been still alive when Miss |
Meyers discuv cred her, was dead
Mrs. Doyle, Sorry that her old and un- i
fortunate frieEd must 20 TO Potter's Field,
went to the erbon avenue police station |
to report the death and ask If it was
not possible TO secure aid to bury her
n some wayother than at public expense
Detective Smith. RoHndsman Quinn and
Policeman Grosell went 10 the house to in
'estigate. aS Mrs. Rose had died without
medical att enGa nee. Mrs. Doyle sun |
about potters field, suggested
hat they search the rooms for something
aluahle enough to he sold toward burial
expenses.
They searched. In cups, pitchers and
'ans ia odd corners. they found S31 in fill
'er. There was S45 in gold, cash coin,
yra pped separately in cloth and slowed
w - in an old trunk. Between the leaves
f an old Bible were one. five and ten dol
ar bills secs in all. Two bank books
howed that in tie Williamsburg and Ger
nan Savings Banks she had 81 1858.
The five dollar bill left by a Grand Army
nan on Thursday ey yening lay onthe eman5eI.
he had teen too ill to hide it. Rankin post
"a d sent it, because she had told its merliiers |
he was starving
II is said that q niece OF Mrs. Bose is IN
loyed H. Mount Sinai Hospital in his !
ity. No other relatives are known.