Starvation

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 129, 10 April 1886, Page 3

Starvation

One of Major Atkinson's auditors at Auckland interjected, when the speaker re; erred to the comfortable «emdition of the working class in New ?— : " What about America?" To show tkat Major Atkinson was not fur wrong in claiming superior advan r tages fer this colony, we (Star) may instance the following account of the death of Frank Waltzman, which happened in Dayton, Ohio,. XJ-S.A., recently. He had seven children and * wife, and was once a prominent «itixen of Exina, Ohio. He tried his hand at any kind of business where he could find opportunity, and finally was compelled to shovel the gravel to get a crust for his children. He worked at this some time, and one night was brought home in a waggon unable to walk. Next morning he was dead. An investigation of the affair established the fact that the man had starved to death. The family had been without food for nearly two weeks. His wife tells the horrible story of his death, saying that while he lay dying his children surrounded his couch and sobbed pite«usly for bread.