The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-07-17
Mrs. L. Goldfish, IS, Frac-
lures Hip.-Found by
Max Bear.
is CRIPPLED FOR LIFE
Physician Has Grave Fears for
Life of Aged Woman; Says
Danger of Complications.

Helpless on the floor Of the bath
room where she had fallen and frac-
tured her hip, Mrs, Lena Goldfish,
rs years old, lay for more than an
hour Yesterday afternoon before her
plight was discovered by her son-in7
law, Max Bear, who CHANGED to re-
turn home early,
DR.. c. R. Caughey, who was sum-
moned Immediately found that the
aged woman was suffering from a
communited fracture Of the left hip,
the bone being badly splintered, She
will be a helpless invalid for life #
she manages to survive, the physician
said. She is lying at the Kenosha
hospital in critical condition.
Mr.. Bear, who is one of the prop
rietors of the Bear Brothers cloth
ing store at ATT Market street return
ed, from a business trip to Chicago
and before going to his store went
to his home at $40 VI erect. He
was slightly earlier e. There
was apparently no CT me and
he set about preparing -4nch for
himself.
He had been in the house for al
most an hour when ha thought he
detected a faint cry, He listened for
a moment and decided that he had
been mistaken, Then 1t came again,
this time even fainter than before.
He made tour OF the rooms on the
.r.wer floor of the house but found
al one.
Then he decided to look upstairs.
AS he pushed the bathroom door open
he discovered Mrs, Goldfish lying on
the tile floor, fer left leg crumpled
under her. She was IA terrible ag-
ony, but toe weak to sry loudly.
Mr., Bear at once eased the injur-
ed woman's position and immediately
summoned DR.. iCaughey. A few minutes
later Mrs, Bear returner home from
a shopping trip. She had been gone
more than an hour,
Mrs, Goldfish said that she had
decided 10 take a bath shortly after
her daughter left the house. AS she
was getting out of the tub she slip
ped and fell to the floor, landing with
her entire weight on her left hip.
She heard the bone as it splintered
from the fall.
Unable to move from the position
in which she had fallen, and suffer
ing intense pain, she attempted TO
call for help. There was no one in
the house at the time, and she was
unable to make her self heard out
of doors, the window and door of
the bath room being closed.
Praying thae someone would hear
her cries She continued 30 call for
help, Is was not until she was weak
ened by the pain and her frantic
cries, that she heard some one enter
the house. She attempted to make
herself heard. But apparently the
effort was futile. Although she keeps
calling, il was not until she had
lain there feg over an hour that she
was able to attract the attention of
Mr., Bear:
Condition is Critical.
DR., Caughey today stated that the
woman's condition is very grave. An
y-ray which was taken of the hin
\ showed that the bone had been badly
crushed and spiintered, so, badly in
fact, thsk there is Ro chance of her
ever walking again:
The physician stated that during
the next ten days OF two weeks she
will be in eminent danger of devel-
oping pneumonia as a complication
due TO her age. Should this condi-
zion develop, the doctor stated that
tbs chances Of her living through
the stack would be almost negiig-
| able.