Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1947 — Page 22

Suffocated o or Starved, Police Believe; Blind Brother Helpless to Save Own Life:

“By LEO TURNER . United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, April 9.—Langley Collyer, the Manhattan hermit, mews | died in one of the booby-traps with which he mined his Fifth avenue Whiskey home because he didn't like people, police sald today. al Spirits! His body was: discovered in a junk-lined. tunnel 10 feet from the York City. Subicle where police’ found the body of his blind and paralyzed brother, "| Homer, 65, on March 21. —— Langley, 61, was pinioned by al Tea Ea suitcase, three ‘metal bread boxes

he had fastened to a trigger in the passageway to trap any in- | truder. Police said he suffocated | or perhaps starved. Conversation Before Death?

Perhaps he and Homer talked as | they waited for death. Langley was | squirreling through a two-foot wide {tunnel litied with a chest of drawers on one.side and a rusty set of pbedsprings on the other, next to | the nest in which Homer was found.

| Authorities were certain now that lthe helpless Homer starved when {his brother could no longer wait | upon him. The mystery now was who telephoned police at 10 a. m, on March {21 and said there was a dead man| |in the Collfer home. The caller | V gave the name “Charles Smith.” 1 | | | *

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121 Tons of Junk It took police five hours to reach Homer. Langley was found under {the 121st ton of junk removed irom

TRIG HEARING AID. City. 5 State. 'the mouldy brownstone mansion in 4 ie it | The blue-eyed, timid little man es — - ; had not shaved off his flowing % £ “3 ol ‘mustache or cut his leng white hair | Book : oe 2310 N. MERIDIAN 'as some neighbors claimed he had ! Sy ps é OPEN UNTIL OS P.M 'done recently to disguise himself. a .- He lay on his right side, dressed

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3000 Books Removed EAR ANT O It was the tons of junk, which y some -elatives complained contained valuables, that slowed the search. Police had removed 14 grand pianos, five violins, 3000 books, parts of a model-T Ford, the jawbone of a > horse, pictures of pin-up girls, a 6-10-12-15 < dressmaker's dummy, bundles of Months to Pay — = newspapers and broken, defaced heirlooms which antique experts LIVING ROOM said weren't worth as much as the

§ " _ iy he sofa and $197 3249 $298 oa at 3% ‘rncthtes ing lounge 310.1000 308 junk around them. : ” BMS Chairs picture, coc B Just before finding Langley, police

bie, lamp ta- found a white shirt and red necktie which “his father had given him ; Tacks and ottoman, on his 35th birthday. Neither had *% the Jovely hassack, ” & J | been worn. the Sturdy sn. sug BT Both educated at Columbia unipad, and the mirror. y versity, Homer was an admiralty : : YG lawyer and Langley an electrical BEDROOM : #8 engineer. Homer lost his sight in

. tg ou yeceive the 3-b¢ $ pet 1933, and the two turned the old and house into a hermitage.

John R.- McMullen, their atterney, will confer with the public administrator" today on division of their $150,000 estate among relatives.

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