Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 09:09:08 -0800 (PST)
From: Cathy Green <dalek_cag at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Paper Weights
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Actually, the Collyer case took things to a whole new
level of weird.  They weren't just piling up the
papers.  They'd organized them into a maze and had it
booby-trapped. I belive they're pretty sure at least
one of the Collyer brothers was killed by one of the
booby traps.  In addition to all the newspapers, they
had 10 grand pianos.

--cathy

>         Moore, a former mailroom clerk now receiving public
> assistance, said
> he collected books and magazines for more than 10
> years and earned money by
> selling them on the street.  The incident recalled
> the legendary case of the
> Collyer brothers, who in 1947 were discovered dead
> in their house in Harlem
> after one of them became trapped under a pile of
> papers and the other died
> of starvation.
>

__________________________________

/top2003