The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1883-01-04
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The invocation in the English prayer
| book, From all sudden death, good
| Lord deliver u.s." IL but an eX resslou OF
/ a natural DIRE d Of sudden death or
death 10y violence. Several such deaths
| have occurred in his county DUR < the
/ /, st year, 1852, and we give he lat An
/ shown by curoncr's iuquests on file IN
/ the district court with e findings OF
the jury in ca ia cHsc,not for merely sen.
| sational ticlo. bu because the llst will
furnish a matter Of thoug ht and point
some m ,rnls. The sudie deaths Of the
past year with their dates OF occurrence
are as follows:
January I'D Has Ford; died at hos
pitnl: run over 10y train on the Mis-.
souri, Pacific ra lroad while comp ng
cars; verdict Of jury IN acoO dance WI h
me.
February Sd. W. Washburne, --.
S ahl, wife and son George, all killed on
baud car run into y a freight train
ON the Missouri Pacific road; verdict o
Jury cNoUeratiug tram men from oil
i'll me.
March 2-Jaue Anthony, negro
woman, near Mt Ohyct, suut dead 10y
the accidental discharge Of Winches.
ter rifle in the hands Of young man,
Jen Cauheld, verdict Of jury according.
March 5 VI. VI. Vaughn; drowned on
the bank Of viii ms creek, fork Of
the Teuuacana, during tn subsidence
Of "a biz flood, the body naked verde
died from exposure and perhaus cram Il,
while attempting to cross a tributary Of
the Tchuacana.
March 9--Jno. Castillo; killed by the
cars Of the Central railroad, knocked
from the ends Of three cross ties by To-
connective while drunk OF asleep at night.
March llth-Found dead, au un.
known female infant, under the bank OF
Waco creek, near the Third sire
bridge, tied up in sack, verdict Of
iuryuuknowu to jury IA to child having
been born dead or murdered.
June 25th-Si Reed, III precinct No. 4,
killed by the accidental discharge Of n
shot gun in the hands OF W. Mont
gOmcry.
July 5th-Youug man named Henry,
killed at P,uctor Springs during the
Volksfest by the discharge Of target
gun, at the sh citing gallery; verdict OF
accidental ath.
October lO-H. r.. Theme found
hanging by the neck dead in an out
house at city hospital, We dict Of suicide.
Causes. lnathsome disease, poverty
and attendant mental depression.
October I'D A. Jnrrot died on
way b. calabouse, while being removed
from hotel, verdict from causes nm
known to jury without post norton
examination.
October iG-K. $. Ingram; verdict Of
jury, diedi'rom pis oil shot by his own
hand.
November 2G--- Eichorni; an in.
.ane Germ II, died in jail from soften
ing of the brain.
Novem or 2sth A. J. Tanton died
by poison administered by his own
hand, ucar Santa FedepOt at McGre. or.
December sth-- H. CasOn, a residence
oi Dr. j. H. Caldwell, near China
| Springs, well aud hearty for an old man,
| fell dead ia kitchen verdict Of some
Internal disease.
December gth--Tnm Callen, at West
| Station, shot nd killed; verdict by the
hand Of jeff Davis,
December l2th-Lillie Stand Ter, run
over by wagon Of runaway team.
/ December 13th.-Judge j. l. Onto,
| found dead IN bed; verdict, died from
asthma.
December 10th W. h. Rcnfro died
| from morphine administered by ms own
| hand.
December 27th-Jas. Bull die Mt
lnboosc from cab lie acl poison by
his own hand.
or these twenty three persona meeting
with sudden death during the y ar
1882, 1t will be observed that railroads
claim Ia ge nuuber II he Victims,
nc ldental dischnrg II Of guns no small
SHARE, while suicide also bears its part.
4 T. mo al of he melancholy recital l.
that while twenty three sudden deaths
occurred IN the county during 1881, two
or more Of which were from natural
causes only ON of them IN II case OF
vi fui homl ide, Out OF poo.
ulatlun Of over thirty thousand
this one fact that only one
wiiful homicide has occurre /
in hl- county III one year IL Il volume
on the peaceful, law abiding and moral
character Of the county. Lesser crimes,
and especially misdcmcauors, are below
the average, but " the grayer crimes few
populations of3O,, 90 IN tia UnitedStatca
can sIow better record than McLeu.
nan county. II will be- uh.cryed that ut
the months in winch sudden deaths oc.
CURED March, October and December
take the lcai.