The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-23

bound Sixth Avenue> car, shortly af- ter 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, a small, midd1e-aged woman, attired in a tai1or-made black costume, with a black leather handbag hanging from her left wrist, suddenly arose as the car was passing Thirty-eighth Street, staggered and fell with her head in the lap of a woman opposite.
 The woman raised the stricken pas senger'S head, saw she was dead and called the conductor. The dead wo- man was Mrs. Annie Masden Vaughan Watson, wife of Henry w. Watson, Representativ in Congress for the Eighth Pennsylvania district, whose home is in Langhorne, Bucks County.
 Although not a jewel was on Mrs. Watson s7 fingers, in her ears or at her throat, it was found at the West Thir- tieth Street Police Station that she had on her person $55,00o worth of jewelry, and in*the handbag ana two silk bags that hung on ribbons from her neck beneath her outer garments she had exactly $12, 185.85.
 Husband Waited Four Blocks Away.
 A policeman was called and sum moned an ambulance from the New York Hospital, which brought pr. Lille. Stalled cars halted block or more behind that from which the dead woman was being taken.
 Meanwhile Congressman Watson was standing at Thirty-fourth street and Sixth avenue, where he had ap- pointed to meet Mrs. Watson at 3:S0. They had come here together, he to attend to business downtown, she for shopping. They had met, Mrs. Ida Faxon of No. 644 Riverside Drive, had luncheon at a hotel and Mrs. Faxon and Mrs. Watson left the Congress
 man.
 Mrs Watson. on the trip here and when with Mrs. Faxon, appeared to be in excellent health, although the Congressman later said his wife had suffered from heart weakness. The two women came out of Stern's store and Mrs. F'axon put Mrs Watson on the car so that she might meet her husband at the appointed time and both might leisurely go to the Penn sylvanias Station and board train for home.
 Congressman Watson, seeing the stalled cars asked the reason and was informed by traffic policeman that a woman had died suddenly on a car. The minute of his appointment had not arrived and he attached no sig nificance to the answer. But when the block was lifted and car after car passed him and his wife did not a1ight, he deduced that thea awon1an might be his -W1Ie.
 Search Reveals Wealth
 He then began telephoning to hos pita1si and repeatedly called up Mrs. F'axon, but St was 6 o'clock before she arrived home and responded.
 Dr. Lille, finding Mrs Watson dead, ordered her body sent to the police station. The matron opened the hand bag and took to Sergt. Cogan several envelopes taken from the handbag No addresses were on the envelopes. The sergeant opened one. Out of it he tok $11OO in $100 bills He opened the other envelopes and then the two ba gs Mrs. Watson had worn under her gown He took out of these $10,- 600 in s1Oo notes. The handbag, in bills of smaller denominations, made up the amount of s12,1S6-S5.
 Though well dressed, the modesty of Mrs. Watson's attire had given nc hint of the wealth upon her person i and Sergt Cogah's astonishment al i the large sum of money was still in tense when the rnatron reported she had found many small silk and linen bags sewn into the garments and cor
 sage. of the dead woman. These were ] opened, revealing a treasure in jew elry.
 I One bag, for instance, contained ( | diamond necklace with a carat stone for it's center and 51 matched dia-
 monds in descending size-a necklace
 wrth at 1easot $1o.ooo. In other bags 1 were a diamond bar pin of 528 stones g, pair of diamond earrings, each witf a six carat stone; a ring set with three | large diamonds, black ename1et 1 brooch with a large diamond in tho center; four-1eaf clover brooch witf | diamond setting; gold watch fob w1tf l a diam ond center; fob formed of many small diamonds; black enamel watcE
 set with gems; gold wrist watch; blue l enamel wrist watch, set with dia monds; gold chain bracelet, in whicE l diamonds, .rubies and emera1ds were 1 affixed; antique gold cuff links: dfa
 mond scarf pin, set in platinum 1 heavy gold chain; diamond 1oc<et; an