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Be - end Very NERVES..
sPoor httle uzsie Webbing" dshod
&Satfssn Of North Bergen yesterday. ITS
= shams the way they treat her. II what
- says b so.' ty
sspoor little nothing said Chisf Of Police
ueady. Little Lxzie's 70 years old II
snss day. and 'twould servo her right
fths bsdbug powder did smell bad.
This conversation was brought about
u tho communication which Lit tic
Hsxes addressed TO the North Bergen
tblics, and which was read before the
Nbsth Bergen Township COMMITTEES at
thsir Last regular meeting.
.'Pisass come up to the house here and
vpeoh " at onoe.' the communication
unn. swhite house, yellow trimmings,
srssn shutters. fourth house from corner
a Herman avenue and the Boulevard
road on tho right hand side II you want
% 70 TO Jerrey City. Ioan't live like this
Nv more with my father. stepmother.
0Spbrothsr and unoles. My stspmother
81 the worst ever. I am frightened out
a my life here day and night. l worry
nd don't get enough to eat and don't
~ what / ought TO have TO eat ! am
turins my health here and A. ! ssid be 6e-
oon't wash and iron my clothes Tor she
Sahes my starch and blueing and uses It
up for her daughters clothes. Her daugh-
tSro i've on Union Hill, the oldest daughter
= Q widow woman now, Mrs. Emma
Stern, and hsr single sister Ii Miss Annie
a. . xo.rn>c< snA .
nlne large number Of people down. Her
right mother. Mrs. Tilly Handy, lived with
her nve or sx years ago, but she got
drowned on Bergenline avenue near West
New York In an loo pond. People say
che was insane. 30 you SEQ have q very
bad stspmother. She gets poisonous black
for bedbuRs. can't live with such fam
ily, any more. for she put hsdbug poison
n her bedroom next TO mine and 1t Is such
q strong smell I can't stand the smell. I
am the only child Of my fathers second
wife. Please send detectives here at once
to watch my father and etepmother that
tbey don't do me any damage. just
wrote letter to Jersey cry CITY to a. riGh %arra ola
Harice, In Bayonne, N. j. He is a mar
Rcd man, IS years Of age. and is living with
his wife. ! wrote to him to come up and
take me down to his house az don't know
the way alone, and told him TO send an
express wagon and take my clothes right
along. I would like my father to consent
house and make him? My fathers name
is Franz Webbing, my stepmother's name
is Mrs. Annie Webbing. Her maiden name
was Mrs. Annie Handy, but she got mar.
ried and changed her name TO Bauman.
My address, Miss Lizzie Webbing. Wee
hawken, p. o., N. j."
Committeeman Branagan was greatly
touched by this letter from, as he believed.
some misused child. Thinking that the
facts might be even more serious than ap-
Feared on the surface, he moved that the
matter be investigated Immediately. Chief
Brady act his sleuths upon the case at once.
They discovered that Lizzie Is about 40
years old. frail and very nervous, and
that her mother is big. good-natured
far as to hint that Iiz1ie's mind is not quite
right.
A reporter visited -the fourth house from
the corner Of Herman avenue and the
Boulevard road on the right hand side II
you want TO 60 to Jersey City, which the
reporter didn't. and found Mr.. Webbing,
my daughter is not accountable for her
is perfect lady and would not be guilty
Of the charges made against her. No
body ever tried to wrong my daughter.
She has a good home and everything she
can wish for. She made a practice OF
running to Recorder HengemAn's Office
almost every day until he could stand it
no longer and told her to stay at home.
Then she took to complaining to Justice
SternkoiH Of imaginary wrongs. / have
been resident of North Bergen for almost
fifty years and l have a name to uphold
MY daughter has promised TO retract every
word she wrote in the presence Of the Town
ship Committee. She says she Is sorry for
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