The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-24

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The end came ut a~quarter To 2 O'Clock
Mr. Crisp has been an inmate of the san
itarium of Dr. S. II. Holmes, of this city,
for several weeks. His condition had been
reported rs very low, but no fatal con-
clusion to his illness had been expected
so soon.
Mr.. Crisp had been in intense pain al
day Every few minutes he would suffer
greatly; but no danger was feared at such
an early moment. His wife, together
with II sanitarinm nurse, Miss Sharp,
were watching ut his bedside.
At about II quarter of o'clock Mr..
Crisp was seized with another attack and
quite suddenly he passed into the calm OF
death. The watchers saw it and sent
down stairs for DR.. Holiness Judge
Crisp's two daughters, Mrs. Fred Daven-
port and Miss Bertha Crisp, and his two
sons, Charles +. Crisp, Jr, and Fred
Crisp, We're at the Ballard House. on
Peachtrec street They were quickly
summoned. When they entered the room
Judge Crisp was still conscious He gave
them look Of recognition, brcathed II
few times and died. He could not speak.
So quickly had the dread messenger come
that the stricken family stood appalled,
in the death chamber
Mr. Crisp's death, while apparently thus
so sudden, was not unexpected by the
physicians who have been watching his
health He had been declining for sew
eralsycars. His last illness, however. was
Immediately occasioned by an attack of
malarial fever which he contracted Mt his
home, Americas, Il few weeks ago, but
which itself yielded to treatment when he
came to Atlanta. He was considered
convalescent and only last Sunday had
ridden out. But when renewed health
1n1 wit In i'm -iat.r 1,f,
congestion of the lungs, which, added to
the weakness of the lungs and heart
caused by the previous attacks of pleuro-
pneumonia, resulted in his DEATH.
DIR. j. B. Holiness director of the
Halcyon Sanitarium, made the following
statement of his illness and the manner
of the end
Judge Crisp had been in ill.health for
the past six or eight months. He had been
suffering for two or three years with in
tense pains, coming ut intervals, in the
chest. He had two attacks of pneumonia,
one about four years ago and the other
about two years ago. On account of ill
health, he had to give up his Joint debates
last summer with Hon IIolle Smith.
After the speeches in June he went to
Ashevillc, n. c., and spent some time
there. From there he went to Tate
Springs and remained until about the
middle of August, then going to his home
i'll Amcricus There he was taken with
malarial fever. He came here to the san
itarium on the 10Th of September 1 ex-
amined him carefully ana found evidence
OF his previous attacks Of pleuro-pnc
monia His fever yielded To the treat
mcnt and ten days ago he was considered
convalescent. lie was out driving several
times last week, even rs late as Sunday,
and fpnlip,r -.
day. Sunday lie was attacked with CON
Sestion of the lungs. He suffered in
tensely all day. Monday night and Tues
day he was still in bed. He was better
Wednesday,
Yesterday he had Il favorable day and
was decidedly better than any day since
last Sunday night. The lung trouble
yielded very satisfactorily to treatment
Last night he was visited with very severe
pains i'll the chest that occurred at very
short intervals He continued to have
these paroXysms.until 40 this afternoon,
when he suddenly expired, probably from
rupture of the heart as the result of fatty
degeneration
Definite arrangements have not been
completed concerning the funeral, but it
is understood that his body will ulti-
mately rest at his old home in Americus,
among the people who loved so well to
honor him.
Honors betting the high station Mr.
Crisp occupied in State and national
affairs will undoubtedly be paid Mr.
Crisp's body by the general assembly
which meets next Wednesday,
Mr. Crisp was the choice of the Demo
Gratis of Georgia to succeed Senator John
Ii. Gordon in the United States Senate
and would have been chosen to that posi-
tioh by the legislature at it's approaching
session had he lived
HIS untmely death throws the political
situation into chaos and makes the choice
of Senator a matter of great unceI tainty.
Inc legislature is almost unanimously for
Tree silver, however, and whoever is
named Will be an advocate of that policy
Washington, Oct 23-Speaker Crisp's
death was not altogether surprise in
political circles, as it had been known for
some months that he had not long TO live
and never again could be an active figure
in public affairs. The Speaker had sew.
eral spells OF illness in Washington. He
suffered from asthma and later from heart
trouble.
His ill-health, however, did not become
matter of public notoriety until the past
spring, when he was compelled to aban-
don series of joint debates arranged
with exSecretary Hokc Smith by reason
of the advice of his physicians that it
would imperil his life for him to continue
the debate, which had attracted great
State as we'll as national interest by rea-
son of the fact that il involved the posi-
ton of the Democratic party of the State
en- the silver question, as well as the Sen
atorship from Georgia, for which the ex-
Speaker was an active candidate. The
silver men won their fight and Mr.. Crisp
had he lived would have been the next