Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-21
RIC.HEARTED JIM'S
|WIDOW FACES EVICTION
ON CHRISTMAS EVE
.,.;n Walters Family Has
Had Year of Troubles
Since His Death Last
New Years
KIDD1Es; RENT UNPAID

81 ,,hrietnas Eve and Big Hearted
q II Tv,,,sinnons (as they called him)
hm two Eve dollar bills and two ones,
s,'s vas his weeks pay, and We'll, I'll
Vnls s. ri blow this" he joked In the sa-
pn On 9th street at the corner OF Ran
.ssad between chestnut ana murke''
aeao no was always joking and earn
#ns the tue ois ''
Hnver. .,.,.
, pu. himself he never did. He took 1t
'.n,own ~. that night and gave S1U of the
E ~" .ss ~ bis wife, as he always did--alwaNs.
...... nights later he was a dead man.
s .,.i,,er shattered in 9th street and echoed
s. w. ,be marble caves of the Postofce
& w l.a@ss @ the street. Jim's Big Heart was
80 for. for all the good 1t would ever
f Y him any more In this world. but
n,,is italian bootblack who says Jim pro-
& ,.cied him that New Years Eve, is alive
Z and klcking today
E INNS WIDOW HARD UP.
& Gear has gone since then and another
re..s,n,as is coming for the widow of
d "a. lin Fitzsimmons. rhe $40 of the $l2
s - eot each week is not for her now.
s what money she gets is gotten from the
.,srbe floors of an offlce building, upon
-hieh floors she WORKS. They are clean
E nd
Fl - alr,y and mems cigar stumps, etc, to
.a,l again. and II only costs the building
E 4 cents a day to hire the Big Hearted
.,s's widow to clean UP for the men.
f That 70 cents a day has left her in the
8 h,reh For she could pay only 81 on last
E r,oath's rent, and the landlady was going
+ q nut Jim's widow ana Jims four chill
Fl srsn out upon the narrow pavement OF
narrow Napa street it she did not pay
5 ,hs rest of her rent; but then her mother
E showed the landlady an order from the
nlstrict Attorney for 50 for witness fees,
vhlcb she tried to collect three times,
& hi was put off, and was finally promised
payment on December 4, and If they
+ DON'T pay 1t then. the family may have
"a be cleared out into Napa street after
/ sn. It would appear
SHE BEARS NO GRUDGE.
The witness fees, by the way, are for
the Widows appearance in court to tes-
4 NY against Granville Jefferson, who was
tried on charges OF shooting her husband.
He was acquitted
II didn't bear that man what you would
tall a grudge,' she said today. But
tihougkt IL was strange that II witnesses
could not convince that jury the man
& that shot my husband was guilty. If he
I vas guilty he ought to have been pun
I zkhed for killing the best man in the
world; that's all.
She said that twice on last New Years
Ere there had come a ring at the door
4 heli. The first was when the coal man
brought the ton of coal which Jim had
had the foresight to have put In, and the
econd was when they brought Jim HIM
/ elf home. dead. She began to cry. 1t
ssemg that when II comes to coal the case
Of the family is not as desperate as 1T
mghs be- for "the men on the railroad
i are very kind to my mother, and let her
/ pick up coal on the tracks for our stove"
nM Mrs. Fitzslmmons, as If those rail-
|ttad men were doing quite exceptional
] NJ Of kindness.
MONEY WENT QUICKLY.
she helps a lot with the children-that
big boy there is Joseph: he's 10 years
od,s He looked down quickly; fine.
/ honest-faced boy. HE helps lot.
That's Catharlne; she's 6. and Margaret,
she's l." and then very little son of
Big-hearted Jim toddled across the room
/ and climbed into his mothers lap. That
vas the baby, IS months old. whom she
@sathered to her heart.
When Jim died 1 got 500 from the
Eagles and 5000 insurance. Out of that
paid Si53 for funeral expenses. What's
that? A good deal for n funeral? No, 1t
wasn't too much for Jim's funeral" And
Il was not too much to pay for Jims
funeral. for there will never be another
4 Jim.
She said: 81 took in washing then and
lonins. and | worked out when possible.
But could not make much that way be-