The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-10-31
] WOMAN TELLS
pRY FULL Of PAIH0S
Money, She Was Trying to
w From Here to Florida TO
Investigate Property.
EFT PICKED IN BALTIMORE
Emma Robins, Seventy Years
Leaves Home in Boston for
pose OF Learning Facts As to
aings In the Everglades"

Emma Robbins. seventy years
ho was found yesterday wan
down the Williamsburg Road
eight miles from Richmond.
Rken to the First Police Station
oressor Frank Cosby. has told
" which is tinged with unusual
She was sent to the Meth
Institute, 1914 East Grace
by the police.
Dixon. of the Institute. took
nder his care. and soon had
her in comfortable home.
she is being well attended to.
questioning her as 10 how she
10 be walking so far from the
NE told him her story. She has
seanstress. living in Boston for
lber of years. Her husband died
10. and shortly after that time
~ their home in Savannah, and
North. They had no children.
although of advanced age. she
priced to earn her livelihood with
feeble. She saved as much of
arnings as she could lay aside.
Ft the time. AZ she told Mr..
when she could no longer
lie her husband was living their
instances were comfortable in
Georgia home. and they had
a little nest egg for rainy
But some land dealers and real
schemers from Florida came
on their land improvement
Fl. and the long boarded bank
MT was contributed to the sink
lnd' dropped in the marshes OF
Everglades. But the old lady has
lost faith in the mythical prop
Thich they had labored so many
to buy She stiil thinks her in
fent will work out Well. and that
matter IL looked into she will
enough money 10 make her last
easy
Robbed In Baltimore.
Iieving in this, and saving all she
from her meager wages. she
y had enough to pay her trans
|tion 10 the Flower state The
WAS to he made with stop
here and there, and she got to
more But in The station. a
|-eyed crook seeing her helpless
Mon snatChed her purse, and
|it all the money she had in the
He was never caught, snc
was stranded IN n strange city.
mo friends
Eieone soon appreciated the state
|airs, and gave her fare To Wash
h, and there she secured. in some
money 20 bring her To Rich
|. But when she arrived here
hnds were all gone. and she con-
ID that she would walk "A part
10 way 10 the far South. Con
Intly. she inquired OF someone
road she should lake 10 Peters
and they showed her road
L was not the Petersburg Turn
'and she had travelled eight miles
e she was informed by Profess
soshy that she was on the road
She was then
sht hack To this city. and direct
! the police 10 the Methods, In
e.
/ here misfortune befeli her
/, Being unacquainted with the
she failed to find tho building
vas looking for. and night over
her when she had wandered as
as Church Hill. Being almost
asted after her strenuous tramp
lie afternoon. she felt uBab Bile to
. the trip back TO the police sta
and for time was bewildered
after a while she saw house
q porch that was somewhat hid
from the street. She concluded
end the night there. and crawled
h corner of this porch She Asspt
until early the next morning.
she was directed TO the Insti-
She had contracted severe
while sleeping on the porch. for
score and ten is generally pro-
with better lot.
e hopes To secure work here,
which she will be able to save
" to continue her journey. She
yes that her property is In good
E, and that she will realize
ly sum for it She does not want
ty. she says. but merely a chance
-ork. The superintendent. Rev.
lesley Dixon. has provided sutli-
~ for her needs. and she will
rell taken care of. She did not
of any relatives. and so far as
lowu there arc none. She hopes
D TO Florida before the winter
er