Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-10-31
ALovsR OF coRpsEs.

The M0CCn B4ohelOr Who CultaVates Skulls
and sleeps by Guillotine.
Macon Telegraph and Messenger.
There is q gentleman in Macon whose
business is that of q 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 bachelor,
and l may say right here that he has
been on the bachelors list for a number
of years.
He has passion for corpses, broken
limbs, cuts, bruises and mashes. He will
sit up with corpse all night simply for
the opportunity to gaze upon the CHASTITY
face and study the immovable features.
His room is museum of grinning skulls.
mummifed hands and feet, bits of rope
from murGerers' 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
from 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
night on it and not wake up bowling
maniac is more than can imagine. The
headboard is small gallows and reaches
within few inches of the ceiling. From
the cross-bar hangs the rope. t.e moose
OF which hangs within reach of the
sleeper. It serves to draw up or let down
the mosquito netting. The footboard
the bedstesd is in imitation of a guillo-
tine, and to make the imitation more
perfect basket of skulls is placed Just
under the knife. A more horrible rest
ing place than this bed 1 never saw.
His room is in the heart of the bust
ness portion of the city, and yet he al
lows no one but himself to enter it, not
even his most intimate friends. One
night his mosquito netting caught on
fire and aroused him. Seeing the blaze.
and forgetting his CHASTITY measures, he
raised the window and called for help.
l was passing by and responded. The
fire was put out, and stood before him,
the only person who had ever seen the
interior of his curious room.
felt as if stood within the regions
Dante had so fearfully portrayed. When
the excitement of the fire had subsidized
| looked around me and stood speechless,
paralyzed. He swore me to secfesy, and
[ kissed almost unconsciously white
skull, upon the polished frontal bone of
which was written the Lords Prayer
Then he showed me everything he had,
and kept up running lecture with each
article, just as Mr.. Antony shows and de-
'cribes to me the different varieties of
grapes. Reaching down into the basket
If skulls, he brought one up and said:
"This is the skull of man who in life
lid you a great wrong"
looked at the thing and the teeth
eemed to grin assent and the eye sock
It's grew larger.
II forgive him, I forgive him. cried
md rushed from the room. Who the
nan was l do not know, but if he had
vronged me beyond eternal redemption
would forgive him freely. That was
wo or three years ago and my eccentric
riend, no doubt, has added much to his
liabolical collection, and most probably
he skulls Of more ofmy enemies.