The Washington times., 1923-06-28
LIES>R|G|D
ALONE: 4
DAYS
ParaIyzed, Mrs. Ella Fuss is
Found by Friends on Floor
Of Home Starving.


Lying helpless on the floor of
her dining room whilst she was
slowly starving to death, Mrs.
Ella Fuss, Of apartment 80, the
Holland, 1926 Vernon street
northwest, a business woman of
considerable means, heard the
milkman deliver each morning of
her four-day enforced helpless
ness a quart of milk, only to hear
some one fitch it from the door
of her apartment a few minutes
later.
HuddIed on Floor.
Stricken with paralysis Saturday
night, Mrs. Fuss lay huddled in
the middle Of the dining room of
her three-room apartment, for four
days while friends vainly attempted
to find out the reason for her
strange nonappearance at her place
of business, the Ladies' Exchange,
ut 807 Vermont avenue northwest.
o.
eral thousand dollars and with "a
business that was bringing in com
Portable income each month, Mrs.
Fuss was slowly starving to death
with her money and means abso-
lutely Of no worth. She was found
last night when Mrs. c.. l.. Arm.
entraut, Of 1913 G street northeast.
became alarmed at her continued
disappearance and summoning the
police, broke into the apartment.
Two police Of the Tenth precinct
and two close friends of Mrs. Fuss
were in the party. They found Mrs.
Fuss barely breathing, but at sight
Of them she tried vainly to speak to
them. She lifted her right arm and
moved her right leg, but the paraly-
sis had too completely disabled her
left side to permit her to move
along the floor and she was too
weak from starvation to speak.
An attempt was made to wet Mrs.
russ parched lips with water, but
she was too feeble to drink any of
the fluid. Doctors who were sum
moned lifted her head and forced
down her throat mixture Of whis-
key and water. Then she was taken
to Emergency Hospital. She is suf-
fering from starvation, paralysis Of
the right side and a huge cash over
her left eye.
This cash was sustained, the doc.
tors believe when she fell to the
floor after the stroke. It Is not Sc.
rlous and the attending physicians
are hopeful that her indomitable
spirit will pull her through. It'll
was stated that her condition this
morning was as we'll as could be
expected
Brought on by Grief.
Grief over the death of her hus-
band, three years ago. is believed
by friends to have been the in.
ducing cause of her stroke.
Mrs. Fuss was alone in her anart
ment and while she always kept
ner affairs to herself it is known
that she was lonely and that she
gr1eVed for her husband. She had
no pets and except for her business
she had no diversion.
When the police broke into the
apartment they found one quart of
milk In front OF the door. Three
quarts tnat had been delivered had |
been stolen.
Friday morning when Mrs. Fuss
went TO her store she told her |
clerks tnat she was feeling a bit |
to them that her husband had been
dead three years and she reiterated
ner intention to sell out her bust |
ness ana go to the home of rela- |
tives In MELVILLE. Pa. She had no
relatives In this city. She had
been conducting the Ladies' Elk |
change for 80 years.
Mrs. Armentraut declared this
morning that she had tried to reach
mrs. Fuss twice Monday on the
telephone in the hallway beneath
her apartment. She communicated
with neighbors and they too tried
TO get into the apartment.
Heard Rescue Efforts.
By peculiar twist Of ironv Mrs
FUSS was conscious and heard The
efforts of friends to attract har Of.
tention. She was forced tn lot
tneHl go away without aiding her
wnen they could have relieved her
OF tne agony or slow starvation and
posslo1e oeatn: She could hear oc.
cupants OF the apartment house
pass ner door and the best thing
she could 40 to save herself was
10 atGempt 10 pound on the floor
win her one good hand.
Friends OF Mrs. Fuss TODAY wired
ner relatives Of her condition. Mrs.
N. Snow, OF 1856 Newton street
northwest, and Mrs. E. D. Shaw,
or 1853 Y street northwest, two
close friends Of the stricken woman,
together with Mrs. Armentraut,
are looking after her affairs. l