The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-08-22
MRS. WEBB HAD MONEY LEFT
KEEPER or MORGi n CONES ron.
WARD WITH SfOO.
Mrs. <bbott. VIM HAD Befricndcd Her.
Thinks There Ought tn Bc More Sus.
poets Robbery aud Hints al GraNer
Crime Police see Nothing suspicious


Crime Police see Nothing suspicion,
\ former art pupil. Mrs. Charles T.
| Abbott has undertaken the funera
! arrau gnmonts of Mn. James Paine Webb
who died poverty stricken last Saturday
| in u Holoken hotel where she had gone
to live after she had spent fortune that
WAS left her by her husband al one time
an eninen, New England physician. Mrs
| Abbott took lessons in art from Mrs
| Webb last fall when the latter was almost
pennlcss She read Of the woman +
| lonely death and has started an investi-
CATION.
The burial will he in Bridseton, Me.
whore Mrs Webb was brought mp and
where she spent large part other married
| life. Dr. Haskins. the assistant county
physician. attributes Mrs Wehb's death
to natural causes. but is waiting FOR more
facts concerning her before allowing the
| body to be removed.
When the police and Morgue Keeper
Winteriuute first examined the woman a
clothing and the trunk they found, they
say. only n little more than $40 Mrs.
| Abbott, with whom Mrs. Webb lived for
| ght months prior to her going to Hobo
ken. knew that in June Mrs. Webb in.
herit ed more than $50 from James Farrar.
an ,Ince who lived in Pine Grove. Pa
and Mrs Abbott thought that it wasn't
hkclv that Mrs Webb had spent nearly
all Of IT, \ careful examination on her
part. Mrs Abbott says, brought to light
no more money. but yesterday afternoon
Morgnn Keeper Wintcrmutc teIephoned
her that he had found 500. The money
was in four 500 bills. Wintermute said
later that he found the money in an en-.
velope among the papers in the dead
womans trunk
Mrs. Abbott who is connected with the
Little Mothers Aid Society. said she had
reckoned from the accounts which Mrs.
Webb kept that there ought To be 500 or
so0o more. She said she thought there
was robbery somewhere and was even
afraid that there had been murder.
Last night Capt. Bell Of the Hoboken
police said that no investigation Of the
woman's death had been started and he
didn't see any reason why there should
be any further examination. He was
satisfied that there had been no foul play
He had not heard of the discovery of tn.
siW.
, Mrs. Webb. who was 81 years old. was
horn in Pine Grove. Pa. Her maiden
name was Rosalie Farrar and her family
was one of prominence. When they
moved To Bridgton Me. she married Or
James Paine Webb. He became well
known a. IA physic throughout New
/ England and amassed a considerable
fortune. He died twenty-three years
! ago leaving his property TO his widow.
! Mrs. Webb spent her inheritance in
/ travel abroad and in an unsuccessful at
tempt To start a girls school at Berlin
! She was an educated woman with artistic
tastes. In the house that she fitted M
! for the school on the Tiergarten. Berlin.
were many objects of art. She was a
musician and iinGui,t. but lacked the
executive ability to make the venture a
success
! Following this failure she continued
her travels. even when she lacked funds
! to pay her hotel hills. She is said TO
I have left trunks in many European cities.
| There is n story that she was successful
! for while AT Monte Carlo with a system
! that she devised. but which later proved
more of a liability than an asset
Mre. Webb returned TO this country
/ two or three years ago and failed 10 get
money by teaching music and languages
A few friends helped her TO some extent.
but finally she was forced 10 depend upon
"A weekly 81. 50 thai the Charity Organization
Society gave her. This was withdrawn
when II was found that Mrs, Webb shared
| il with a young cashier in a restaurant
I who had trusted her when she was rd
pressed she had acted the part Of a
mother for him when he became diss-
patei
Las, fall Mrs Abbott met Mrs Webb
/ through an advertisement and this led
/ to her taking both Mrs. Webb and the
oil Iln ,nt. boz h,,,ta