Arkansas Intelligencer

A Sad Picture of Destitution in New York.

An inquest was held in New York, on Monday, on the body of a woman, forty years of age, who was found in a dying condition the previous night, in an open yard, on Seventh Avenue, and who expired at the station house. A little girl, eight years of age, and two younger children (boys) were lying beside her upon a pile of rags. At the inquest the little girl, Marie Anne by name, was examined. She told a very sad tale most artlessly:

"That is my mother," she said pointing to the corpse. The night before last, two men came into our house, and turned my father and mother, and me and my two little brothers out. We had nowhere to go. We then went to sleep in the entry. Nobody turned us away all night. In the morning, father went away to look for another place. He was gone all day. We had nothing to eat, and was very hungry. Nobody would let us into their house, 'cause they said if they did the landlord would turn them out. The folks we hired the house of hired it of somebody else. So we went into the yard. Mother said she was very sick; she has been sick long time before, and my little brothers cried. Mother lay down, and I put some rags on her to keep her warm, because she said her head ached so bad. When it got dark my two little brothers lay down, and I put some things over them, and I got some rags to put under them, too, and then I sat up to watch. By and by a policeman came along, and then he went away and got another one, and they lifted her up and put her in a cart, and took us all here. Mother didn't want to leave the yard. She said to the policeman that she wanted to stay where she was."