The end of life's journey

In the photo - one of the buildings in the center of New York March 21, 1947. Earlier, the police received a report about the unpleasant odor that is perceptible about residential building - perhaps a corpse?

At the site turned out that to get inside is not so simple: there was no doorbell, door closed, windows are protected by railings, and on the other side of the thick wall stood a pile of newspapers and all different. Finally one of the windows failed to crack, and the police began to literally dig his way, throwing garbage on the street. After five hours of searching found the body of Homer Collyer, who lived there with his brother Langley. Found that death was due to starvation - Homer was paralyzed and completely dependent on his brother.

April 8 at ten feet away from his brother and found the body of Langley - in a kind of tunnel of newspapers and junk that collapsed in an evil hour. From the house raked over 100 tons of garbage, including the retractable roof of the coach, the chassis of the old Ford, 14, a piano and two organs.
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