The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-02-20
OLD NEWsWOMAN'S FORTUNE.
Likely t., Be Turned over to the Hus-
band Who Left Her

NEW YORK. Feb. 20--The irony of fate
is written all over the odd history of old
Grand Central Lizzie Smith the news
woman who for twenty-five years sold pa
pers at the Vanderbilt Avenue entrance to
the Grand Central Station. and who died
in the belief that her second husband.
Patrick Slattery, never would get any OF
her money. Slattery will get between 3d.
zoe and $4,000. which she tied up in the
Blocker Street Savings Bank in the name
of her boy, George Albion, who ran away
one night because his mother whipped him
for dropping newspaper in the mud ! II
never come back" yelled the tow-neaded
little fellow, shaking his fist at>his moth
er, and then he darted around the corner
and dashed his bundle of papers into the
gutter
Lizzie was married in England to Albion
Smith with whom she quarreled- Smith
left home and Lizzie came to the United
States with her boy, George Albion She
had weIl-to-dO relatives in Englanl, and
until her money was gone she hVed com
fortabIy with her boy. She finally TOOK
to selling papers, and guarded an unde-
fined territory in front of the Grand Cen
trail station with such zeal that many
boy came out of a combat with her with
an aching head In rain and sun, early
and late. she sold papers, and wnen her
boy got big enough she put him at IL, too
She prospered and put her savings in the
bank. Then a real estate Spectator came
along and told her a story of how she
could double her money and live ike a
/ lady. She trusted him and lost her money
! 81 OG0 That was a hard blow, and she
! grew sour aud ugly She annexed new
] territory successfully fought more bat
j ties with the boys. and soon again had
: ~, -, nRDDS-
t tied it in the name of her missing boy
/ Her husband died in England Patrick
! SIattery, a New York ccachman, learning
/ of Iizzie's bank account, woosd her sue
/ cessfuIIy. and the two were married by
/ MAYOR Wickham at the City Hall IN 1910
! SIatterv was none too fond OF WORK, II
/ seems. anGs, soon became a pensioner on
/ his wife This led 10 a quarrel and Stat
/ terry, was elected from the house one
| day. Sickness and unfortunate specuia-
ton again brought her to poverty three
/ wears ago and then she applied TO the
! Blocker Street Bank for the money
placed to the credit OF her boy She was
| told she could not have it unless she
proved that he was dead. This she could
/ not do.
One day about FIVE years ago Mrs
/ Kramer. friend Of LiZzie's, stopped to
| speak to her as Lizzie was selling her
| papers at the usual place. She told LIZ
! zie that the day before nice-looking
| man about thirty years old with light
! hair and blue eyes, had called at her
house and asked if she knew of any Mrs
/ Patrick SIattery or any Mrs Lizzie
/ Smith
L told him he'd find old Lizzie Smith
I up t. tn depot sellin' papers an chasin
! tn small boys off her beat" said Mrs
/ Kramer. The stranger, who probably
/ was the missing son. never hunted up his
mother. This broke the aged woman S
! heart, and she soon gave up
! SIattery was lost to her, her boy was
| gone. and she was sick in mind and hody,
/ ana it was little wonder that she died
/ late in 1889. The Public Administrator
/ took charge Of her estate, and unsuccess-
| fully tried to find her son, who, if living,
/ is over thirty-six years old. Now Stat
! terry, who is sixty-fYe years old and over,
/ comes forward with a claim to Lizzie's
! estate in the Bleecker Street Savings
{ Bank Public Administrator Hoes said
/ yesterday that Slattery was likely to get
| il soon after March l. as George Albion
| Smith. the missing son, cannot be found