The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-07-12
n Terrible Death
BUSINESS MAN WHOSE DEVOTION TO Busr.
NESS INDUCED HIS DEATH.
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BUSINESS MAN WHOSE DEVOTION TO Bust
NESS INDUCED HIS DEATH.
fBaltimore American. saiurday.I
Mr.. j. Brown George fell Yesterday morn
ing from one Of the upper windows OF hi
boot aud shoe warehouse. at the corner o.
Sharp and Lombard streets, and was amos
instantly killed. Mr.. Georges firm occup,
the four upper stories Of the building
which Is Que OF the new warehouses, tbeil
Office being on the second floor. II wa,
about . O'Clock when he came down &c
business yesterday morning. lie had been
In bad health for some time, and had spent
last March at the Hot Springs OF Arkansas
under treatment for rheumatic trouble
Since his return he Ind gradually grown
weaker, and early yesterday morning he
| fell PROSTATE four times at his own resi-
dence. His family desired that he should
not 20 down 10 business. but as he was
preparing for trip TO Boston he Judged
that there we've affairs down town to which
he ought TO give his personal attention be-
fore his departure north.
When he arrived at his Office he spoke TO
the clerks and to his younger brother, Mr..
q. w. X. George, who at that moment was
attending to a customer Mr.. j. Spear. OF j.
d A. Spear, shoe. dealers on Camden street.
short conversation was held. and Nr.
George asked Mr.. Spear to 20 with HIM up
stairs to see some goods, but the latter
laughingly replied that it was too warm TO
go any higher. Mr. George then read his
mail. gave some instructions TO his clerks,
and proceeded TO the upper stories TO make
an inventory Of stock. To which floor
he went is in doubt. but from the statements
OF various persons he must have goue up
rs far as the fourth story. No one was
up stairs, and Il is thought that Mr..
George, feeling the want Of fresh air in his
enfeebled condition. went toward one OF
the large windows with the intention OF
opening it. They are all very deep, aud the
Sills are only about two feet from the floor
1t is supposed that he found the sash diff
cult TO raise, and was throwing all his
strength and weight upon il, when it flew
up so suddenly that he lost his balance and
was precnltated outward over the sill. No
one saw him as he pitched forward, but rs
his body flew downward in its dreadful de-
scent there were several witnesses.
Police. Officer Michael Byrne was stand
ing on the opposite corner and talking to
Mr.. Walter Dushane, and Mr.. j. q. Chap
man was also standing near by. The cry
Of the falling man attracted the attention Of
Mr.. DuShane, who uttered shout OF hOr-
ror, and pointed TO the body falling down.
WaId. At that moment the form OF Mr..
George was, as Mr.. Dushane saws, above
the third-St0Ty window. His face was
downward and his arms outslretched, as if
i'm agony. graSping for life. gentleman
in the opposite store also saw Mr.. George
falling. Officer Bvrne and carpenter
named J. G.. Stackman instantly rushed TO
the scene Of the calamity, ana raised the
body OF Mr.. George from the gutter, where
il bad fallen, having struck partly on the
pavement and partly in the street. The
SIGHT was frichtful one.
lie must have struck upon the back part
OF his head, for the skull WAS terribly
crushed, aud his shoulders and back nearly
broken. As they picked the PROSTATE body
OF Mr.. George up he gaSped once or twice
and expired. They carried him across the
street, INTO the warehouse OF l.. III. Lee X
! Son. Meanwhile some one rushed up stairs
! into the Office OF Mr.. George. aud exclaimed
"COme down, quick; Mr.. George has fallen
out OF the window, and l. killed. The an
nOuncemcn. as may be imagined, caused
The greatest excitement. The news spread
over the city with great rapldity, and before
an hours time it was pretty generally
known throughout the business section.
| Coroner Walker was summoned, and when
| he arrived examined the premises, ques-
| toned SergeantS Droste and Rinehar(, Of
ticer Byrne. Mr.. G. W. K. George, and sev-
eral OF the clerks, and coming 10 the con-
cluSion that the death resulted purely from
an accident, deemed an inquest unneces-
sary, and gave the death-certiticate.