The sun., 1910-06-07
IS FALLS FETCHED HEU 5000
RR1OWPiNIES ENDOWED HER
dHRONIC AILMENT.

vr, una Z sinFla Arrested On Larceny
,narGc Sn~r IOOa she's Beea Fau.
,uE noNR on Ears and Boats and Get.
rrng None, Not 10 sue fer Her Hurts.
CONAN who has fallen down siHteen
nr~e- the last four years and has ~
cs.,.4 .n al about $500 from transporta-
,.,r Companies on whose premises she
,sn . 0ocked up in the Tombs She is
Ms Anna 4 Sturla, sometimes Strula,
a,sy Il Hazlet, y. J. She was arrested
10 New York on saturday night on a war
rant ssl,d by Justice Grain of General
Sessions specifically charging her with
,hs larceny of tSOO from the New York
Central railroad on November n. iSOs.
hs money was paid 10 Mrs. SturlA by
the railroad 70 settle her claim for per-
soua INJURIES in fall OcCasioned by a
banana skin
concerning this particular fall Frank
L Arnold secretary of the Alliance for
the Prevention of Accident Frauds. had
some,hirg to say last night The or
shnination Of which he Ia secretary IL
supported by transportation companies.
most II which have settled a claim made
by NS Sturla az one time or another
NJ Arnold whose diligence furnished the
District Attorneys once the facta on
Vhich to get a warrant for Mrs. Sturla e
arrest says that the woman suffers nom
. chronic ailment
Mrs Stura has a rupture. said Mr..
Arnold on October IL. 1903. she fell on
the sixth avenue elevated at Thirty-thlrd
street She was taken 10 the New York
Hospital The next morning shs left the
hospital and went 10 Mount Sc. Yincsnt,
mar Ionkers. That evening she returned
70 the city. and after she had AliRhted At
ne l2j'h street station at Park avenue
.ts'el down stairs. A banana skin was in |
EVIDENCE on the stairs. She went 10 the |
Hlrem Hospital and spent the second
lghi there. A month later the Central |
pad her 500 IN settle her claim for in
.urIes received in her second fall She ia
now charged with ths arosny Of that
so
since then she has fallen at least six
teen Tines 10 my knowledge. receiving
from $50 10 u 60O apiece for each mishap
l-IaIIy some treacherous fruit skin was
found near her fall Somstimes it was a
PARTLY demolished pear or a collection of
gr7pe skins when grapes were in season.
ru' of course the banana skin predomi-
hated
Mrs Sura in all fer troubles never
uent twice 10 the slme hospital On one
' ler falls on terrybOat. caused by the
.oat humping too rudely into its alip.
ne found she was about % be taken 10
. hospital which had Onos sheltered
Ter and she refused ~ 90 thsre they
nrally took her TO another institution
She never brought suit. though she
threatened n Her chronic
cIsahility II one which by slight eEertion
un 10 made TO seem horrsndous II is
s.-o hard 70 tell WHISTLER IL Ia old or new
Yearly every railroad company sett'ed
ls- claim with cash. The elevated rail-
ay oompany in Boaton turned down her
sru and told her % sire. Instead she
- town. The Ishigh Valley claim agent
"d her that he would have her arrested
nd .he fed from bis once with e1-
u7o-drnary healthy agility. n
. aav" been able % find out little
% 100 the woman herself She Is ap-
a-'rfy a widow She used . run
GUNNER unarding houses in New Jersey
'fs Ion the oxford Hotel At Atlantic
highlands one summer Her sixteen
'a's n four years have brought her
rn.' rr.H q 90. with no legal or other
s'n'l-e- fp deduct Financially she is
u' most successful elementary acrobat
have ever heard Of
I0rs ono which Mrs Sturla got in June.
~ '-m the Pennsylvania Railroad
vac rer argest single settlement She
Fvnr did a. well aftsrward. The few
enhances which refused 70 settle with ,
.s' st' never bothered further. but AZ
'a7nus times sinoe 1919 she has col ,
"'i'1 iI5l from tho Jersey Central. $3.50
''rr rh" Reading. aSOO from the Erie.
y from the B. r. T.. $3.50 from the Lack
'Haana and $40 from the Casualty Com
any "i america on account Of q claim
'fa.1s' dry goods house. She also
,f'iR'' claims against the Manhattan
-''a''d r0ads. the New Haven. the
Flfac Service Company Of New Jer- q
.'y and the Hudson and New Jersey {
''a'''r 'rmpany. Usually she got q
os 0Hck. The Hudaon and New
'''''y faction Company. which runs Z
T" .''- Iarry from the foot Of lSOth q
yes 70 fiEeWater. for instance. gave &
tsf SO :
Nrs >'gr.a will bs arraiGned before q
'.'s' Nva1n IN General Sessions to-day. a
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