The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-02-05


tirely satisfactory I next sought and OBJ
tanned an interview with Mr. Isaac Arm
field, an old intimate friend of the twins,
who was present and helped them out af-
ter their demise.
MIR Arm6eld," | asked, sis it your
opinion that Eng died from the shock or
fright occasioned by his brothers death.'
Mr. Arnl6eld No. sir, it is not I
am as well satisfied that blood fowed from
o : to the other through that connecting
i .ament as that the same blood flows in
my right aud left arm
Correspondsnt.-Then you think it
was the death of Chang that precipitated
the death of Eng?
Mr.. Armfield Yes, sir. After Changs
death the blood from Eng's body flowed
into his, but there being 20 responsive
vitality it could not flow back, SO that
Eng died from exhaustion and loss of
blood, and not from any shock or fright.
Up to the time of Ens's death the lga-
ment, which is some eight inches in
length, was warm as far as where it en-
tered Chang's body, which was cold at
the time. The very pature of the liga-
meut, which is four inches wide and as
thick as my wrist, passing from the abdo-
men of one to the other, and in the Gen.
tire of which is the navel of the
twins, is proof positive that the same
blood that flowed in the veins Of one flowed
also in those of the other.
Correspondent. Why, then, dues the
doctor persist in saying that it was from
shock or fright that Eug died ?
Mr.. Armsfeld.-I, do not know but
| heard DR.. Bill Hollingsworth say that
he would rather have the bodies Of the
dead twins than the whole of Surry coun-
ty.
Correspondent-What appearance did
the twins present after their death.
Mr.. Arufeld Chang was nearly black
in the face, and looked as if he had died in
fit or in great agony. Eug looked as if
he had been asleep.
Correspondent.-Do you know whether
Eng made any expression of pain before
he died ?
Mr.. Armfeld.-Yes. l inquired par
ticularly about that, and found that he
called repeatedly to those around him to
rub and pull his arms and legs, that he
was cramped-a sure idication of loss Of
blood, or that the circulation was mpeded
from some cause, and this confirms me iH
the opinion that the death Of Chang
superinduced that of Eng.
NO OPERATION on THE LIGAMENT.
No effort whatever was made to per-
form an operation on the ligament with
regard to ascertaining whether there was
an artery passing through it or not, az
that would have materially interfered
with prospective greenbacks, and present
speculations would have been nipped in
the bud. EmbalEed and preserved as
they are, the bodies of the twins will havo
market value from which money can
always be realized by those having pos
session of them. The ligament cut in
the interest of science, the curiosity
would be destroyed, and, consequently,
the separate dead bodies wound be of no
value.
| have been Informed, on the most au-
thentic authority, that DIR Joe Holings-
worth, while en- route for the North,
stated here that his mission there was to
dispose of the dead bodies of the twins
on the most favorable terms he could ne
gotiate This accounts for the veil of
mystery which has been thrown over the
deaths of the twins, and furnishes the
clew to the object in suppressiug the real
cause of the death Of Eng, by attributiug
it to the shock or fright occasioued by
Chang's death
The sum asked for the privilege of a
postmortep examination is stated to be
$4,000 or $lO,0 900.
Frank Cowan, who writes poveIs, tells
this in the last number of his Taper /:
That a burglar should be captured BY a
skeleton seems an impossbility, but the
fact actually happening in Greeusburg
on Saturday night last disposes of any
question as to possibility. Breaking into
a closed and uuoccupicd Office of physi-
cian Of that town. a burglar opened a
closet (while his companion with dark
lantern was in another part of the room)
and feeling for clothing at about the
height of closet hooks generally, got his
hands between the jaws of a skelton
which, being adjusted with II coil sprns
ank kept open with a thread closed sud
denly on the iutruding hand by the break
ing of the thread. A sudden thought
striking the burglar OF his being caught
by skefon in the doctors closet, so ter
rifed him that he uttered a faint shrek,
and when his companion turned the Ian.
tern toward him and he heheii himself,
in the grim and CHASTITY jaws of Death
himself he became SO overpowersd ty