The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-12-10
ARE THROUGH WITH
G. B. r1ARkLE & co.
& Co. had no representative at the
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T. Co. had no representative at thu
hearing to disclose 1t.
Coils case was made Immediately pa.
thetic because OF the fact that 1t wa.
only yesterday he buried his wife. She
died. as he averred and no one disput-
ed, from exposure resulting from the
eviction. His mother-in-law. blind
woman more than 100 years of age, who
was evicted with him, and who has
been gradually dying ever since, re-
ceived the last sacraments OF her
church Monday night. He himself Is
nearly go years of age and badly Grip
pied.
"There isn't a whole bone in my
body except my neck he told the
commission. in response to question
from Mr.. Darrow as to whether or not
he had ever been hurt in the mines.
One Of his eyes is gone. his left leg Is
stiffened, his right arm crooked and a
number of his ribs bent and twisted
from fractures. Once his skull was
fractured and another time he received
u cash on the head which required
fourteen stitches to close.
Ten years ago he was caught under
q fall of rock and so badly crushed that
he was in a hospital two years. When
he came out. his fellow workmen sub
scrbed purse OF S16I to help support
him until he could discard his crutches
and go to work. The money was coll
lected at the company's office, the
workmen having authorized the pay
master to Keep the amount of their
subscriptions out of their pay. Super
intendent Smith added $50 to the fund.
Coll went to get the money, but the
company would give him only $25 The
rest of 1t was retained TO be applied OH
his bill for rent of company house
and coal used by his family while he
was in the hospital.
Coils Family.
His family consisted of himself and
wife. his wife's centenarian mother,
four small children of his own, and
little girl whom he adopted when she
was eight weeks old, the little ones
father having died the day her mother
was buried. James Gallagher. the
witty old Irishman, who was on the
stand the day before, took the other i'll
fant orphan into his family. The witt
ness has one grown up son. who be-
came insane during the strike. and is
now in the Luzerne county asylum, at
Retreat.
Towards the close of the strike, the
witness received notice to quit the
company's house. He owed for rent
accumulated during the strike but no
demand was made OH him for it, Early
on the morning of the sixth day, before
the family was out of bed. Sheriff
q h n
house and ordered them out. Coll did
not expect an eviction. thinking, as he
put it, that the notice was "only a
bluff" He pleaded with the sheriff
not to turn him out, as his wife was i'll
of bronchitis and his mother law
unable to move. The sheriff said he |
was sorry but he had to do his duty.
Coll pleaded with him to give him |
until the next day, that he might have |
time to get another house and nDve
his sick wife and mother-in-law.I 1t
was impossible to get another house in
Jeddo, as the company owned them all,
and he did not want to put the neigh
bors under the ban of the company's
displeasure by permitting them to take
him in. At all events. there was a
cold, drizzing rain falling, and if the
two invalid women We're forced out in
it the consequences might be serious.
The sheriff said he would see Mr.
Markle and endeavor to have him agree
to allow him to remain until noon. In
a Very short time the sheriff returned
and said: You will have to get out in
five minutes or we will be forced to put
YOU out"
The Eviction.
Coll, half-distracted, told the sheriff
% so ahead and put him out. Two
ieputles carried the old woman out of
ler bed and across the road into an
'ther house. Mrs. Coll dressed herself
md went into the street, where she
'pent couple of hours packing her
household goods in boxes and barrels
o save them from the rain. Coll hur-
led off to HaZleton and late in the day
succeeded in getting another house. AT
] O'Clock that night they finished
moving and went to bed. There was
10 fre i'll the house, everything was
vet from the rain, and in the morning
III OF them had colds Mrs. Coll was
hoked up so that she could not talk. {
'he wanted to so to the hospital, but I
oil believed that as long as he was no .
onger employed as miner he could
lot set his wife into the miners hos I
ital, and instead had her consult n E
MUSICIAN. .
He was to pay the doctor a dollar $
lonth, but when the doctor learned of
nelr story he refused to take any t
honey. Friday last she went to bed Il
cry i'll. In the middle of the night she q
'oke her husband and asked for her \
'edicine, gasping that she was chok- 4
lg. a
'She died in five minutes" said Coll. Il
ursting into tears. t
The commissioners up to this point v
ecause of Mr.. Darrow's skillful man d
en- in directing the witness recital of q
Is story, did not know that the wife II
adj died. C
'pied?' queried Judge Gray. stopping u
iddenlS In his pacing up and down "
he bench. Did you say she died?"
yes, sir; died In my arms. with not u
soul in the house but ourselves"
And you buried her yesterday" in y
rposed Mr.. Darrow. 81
Yesterday" sobbed the broken
slrted old fellow. II
Commissioners Affected. ol
Judge Gray sat down and looked ~
mpa asslonately at the weeping man on ~ ~
e stand. He had no doubt witnessed :,
my sud scenes in court, but likely ~
thing ever moved him as did this. ~
shop sSpaulding wheeled half way ~
lnd in his chair and looked at the a.
ir wall. Every other commissioner n,
opped his eyes. and old General Will n,
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