The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-08-05
Aged Woman, With Mys-
ferrous Past, Expires
of Hunger.
HAD ALWAYS LOVED WHISKY
Craved Liquor From Girlhood-Studied
Music, Went On the Stage, and Was
Wined and Dined-Love Affair Fol-
lowed With Sad Ending.

BAYVILLE. L I, Aug. Ada Sweet
ser, an cid woman who was believed By
her neighbors here to be an outeast
from a wealthy New York family. died
in her howell last night Of starvation AID
in extreme squalor.
She had several dogs. two cats. and
three or four chickens about her. Two
Of the dogs starved to death with her.
The others now are more dead than
alive
Miss Sweetser had been a good deal OF
mystery to her neighbors during the
three years she lived in Bayyille. She
never allowed any Of them to en-e- her
house. But from time TO time she took
il some wandere-. man CT beast. to
some OF whom her hut and scanr fare
seemed less miserable than his OWN lot.
Had Wealthy Relatives.
She talked much Of her fne family
and OF their wealth Letters which were
found in the heaps Of rubbish with which
the place was Uttered showed that there
was at least some basis for these stories.
about the most that The neighborhood
really learned OF her. until her deatf
last night gave the gossips an oppor-
tunity to rausack her u.eaygr Ieavings,
was that she came to Bayviile from Long
Swamp, near Huntington.
he people of Long swamp were not so
patient with their curiosity - The PEG
pie OF Bayville have been When they
found that they could not Ee- into hen
house they made her drunkenness aid
the charity which she showed to wayfar-
ing men and dogs the excuse for drfv-
ing her out OF her home there and burn
ing it down as a public nuisance
For the past few months Miss Sweet
ser seemed to have taken TO drink more
and more She even disposed CT some Of
her miserable clothing to negroes fu Dy-
ser Bay. to get the money with which 70
buy drink.
Some or the people in the road houses
near the lonely lane in which Miss
SWcetser lived noticed all last week that
she had not boon seen about as much as
usual. Frequently they had had occa-
sion before that 10 pick her out OF the
roadway where she wss lying uDcol-
scicus from drink and carry her to the
house.
When her body was moved it was found
that decomposition had begun in some
parts OF the body before death i bottle
TEtA about two ounces OF whisky left in
II lay beneath her body. She had been
too weak TO raise It 10 her lips. bit Of
paper found on the floor near the pallet
bore these words:
Died With Starving Pets.
Il am very hungry-to go out Sunday
and yesterday for our dinner or some
hing TO eat, as there was not one lacr-
sci in the house. I never saw such work
in my life. I am Just dying BY inches
eading such life. I cannot exist
In a closet in the room in which Miss
5weetser died were the bodies o. two
logs wrapped in newspapers. a dead
.hicken lay by the window The windows
u the house were covered with white
1aeshed netting, that none of the pets
night escape. There were four living
logs. Their ribs showed and none vas
strong enough TO stand on its legs long
It a time
IN another room two eats were found
u similar misery. The neigabors who
gathered around the hut took the All