Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-10-31
ALOvKR OF CORPsEs.

The Macon Bachelor Who CuItivates Skulls
and sleeps by a GuillOtine.
Macon Telegraph and Messenger.
There is a gentleman in Macon whose
business is that of a bOOkkeeper, but his
duties are such that his services are only
required for five hours every morning.
This arrangement leaves him with all
the night and more than half the day
to use for himself He is a bachelor,
and may say right here that he has
been on the bachelors list for a number
of years.
He has a passion for corpses, broken
limbs, cuts, bruises and mashes. He viii
sit up with a corpse all night simply for
the opportunity to gaze upon the CHASTITY
face and study the immOVable features.
His room is a museum of grinning skulls,
mummified hands and feet, bits of rope
from muFC erers' gibhets, bullets dug out
of flesh, splinters from dreadful railway
collisions, empty bottles that once con-
tanned suicides pOisons, and numberless
other things that have been collected
nom time to time from COrOners, medical
colleges and everywhere. His library
consists Of works of death, pOisons, in
sanity, etc.
The bedstead is the main feature of
the room, and how any man could sleep
q night on 1t and not wake up q bowling
maniac is more than I can imagine. The
headboaTd is a small gallows andreaches
within q few inches of the ceiling. From
the CrOss-bar hangs the rope, tie moose
Of which hangs within reacECof the
sleeper. 1t serves to draw up or let down
the mosquito netting. The fOotboard
the bedstead is in imitation of a guillO-
tine, and to make the imitation more
perfect q basket Of skulls is placed Just
under the knife. A more horrible rest
mo u1lGna than knre nod II
His room is In the heart of the bust
ness portion of the city, and yet ne al
lows no one but himself to enter it. not
even his most intimate friends. One
night his mosquito netting caught on
IRE and aroused him. Seeing the blaze,
and forgetting his CHASTITY measures, ne
raised the window and called for help.
I was passing by and responded. The
hre was put out, and stood before him,
the only person who had ever seen the
interior Of his curious room.
felt as if I stood within the regions
Dante had so feArfully portrayed. When
the excitement of the fire had subsidized
i looked around me and stood speeches.,
paralyzed. He sWOre me to seCresy, and
i kissed almost unconsCiOusly q white
skull, upon the polished frontal bone of
which was written the Lords Prayer
Then he showed me everything he had,
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article, just as Mr.. Antony shows and de-
scribes to me the different varieties of
grapes. Reaching down into the basket
ofskulls, he brought one up and said:
~This is the skull of q man who in life
did you q great wrong"
I looked at the thing and the teeth
seemed to grin assent and the eye sock
cts grew larger.
81 forgive him, I forgive him" cried
and rushed from the room. Who the
man was I do not know, but if he had
Wronged me beyond eternal redemption
I would forgive him freely. That was
two or three years ago and my eccentric
friend, no doubt, has added much to his
diabolieal collection, and most probably
The skulls Of more ofmy enemies.