The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-10-24
CHARLES F. CRISP DEAD
After a Long Period Of III Health the
Georgian Passed Away Yesterday.
THE END WAS TRAGIcALLY SUDDEN
He Had Been in Atlanta Receiving
Treatment for Some Time. Isut
His Death wns Not Expected lie.
nains will Lie in State in AtIani,,
ana BE Inferred In Amerlcus.

Atlanta Ga, Oct. a3-Hon. Charles
Frederick Crisp. Speaker of the Fifty
| first and Fifty-Second Congresses. died
at Holmes Sanitarium at l:i5 o'clock
this afternoon. y paroxysm of pain in
the heart preceded death, the paroxysm
probably resulting from n rupture of the
neart as the result of fatty deEeration.
HE HAD MALARIA
Judge Crisp came to Atlanta six weeks
ago for treatment He was then suffer-
ing from typical case of malaria fever
which had developed at his home In
| Amertcus He spent June. July and u
| part of August In the mountains of
North Carolina and Tennessee. His re-
turn to middle Georgia during the very
hottest period of the summer DEVELOPED
the fever. After n weeks treatment by
Drs. Holmes ana Davis the fever dis
| appeared and the Judge improved
slowly.
SEEMED IMPROVING.
Last week he was out driving several
times and he was getting stronger until
sunday night, when he was attacked
with symptoms OF his old troubles. pneu-
monia. DR.. j. S. Todd was called in
ana on Tuesday congestion of the lungs
disappeared. but the patient was so
weak that Mrs. Crisp telegraphed for
\ her children, and all came next day.
On Wednesday ana yesterday Judge
Crisp's condition improved but he re-
ceived no callers. His family were hope
| ful until 10 O'Clock last night. when he
mad paroNysm of pain near the heart.
At midnight there was another par
| oNysm and they continued at intervals
| all through the night and forenoon.
IN INTENSE PAIN.
He suffered intense pain, but was con-
scious up To the very last. At ! 30 his
| son. Charles T.. Crisp, Jr, and his
younger brother and sisters went across
| the street 10 Il hotel for lunch Mrs
Crisp remaining with her husband At
l:4o the pain, reappeared. a messenger
was sen n.5Aur the children. THEY came
hurriedly and just In time to get some
| last slances of recognition.
PRACTICALLY SUDDEN.
Judge Crisp did not speak. dying with
| in five minutes of the last attack All
| of the children were with him. and al
| though they had been warned by tnc
| physicians that the end might come at
| any moment. when 1t did come 1t was
| tragic in its Suddenness
| Governor Atkinson was his last visitor.
| having called on Sunday, when he and
| the Judge chattcd for an hour on cur
rent topics. Judge Crisp was kcenly in
| terested in politics TO the very last. He
| opposed fusion with the Populists and
| charged Governor Atkinson to defeat IL
| II possible in Georgia.
| WOULD HAVE BEEN SENATOR.
Judge Crisp was one OF the leaders Of
| the silver movement in Georgia. and on
| that issue the State Overwhelmingly in
dorsed him for the United States Senate.
| 10 which he would have been elected
almost unanimously by the Legislature.
which meets next Wednesday.
! There would have been practically no
opposition To him for the Senate His
| death at this time complexities the situa-
| tion and will lead TO a bitter fight for
| h1 NC
will be involved too. Judge Crisp de-
| clined to contest for denomination to
the House.
| BODY TO LIE IN STATE.
| The funeral ARRANGEMENTS have not
| been completed. but the body will lie In
state at the Capitol tomorrow and adj
dresses Will be delivered by Governor
| Atkinson and members of the Georgia
| Congressional delegation.
SPEAKER REED INFORMED.
| The announcement of Judge Crisp's
death was telegraphed to Speaker Thos
| Il. Reed, at Portland, and to the Ser
geant at Arms of the House this after
noon. 1t being customary to notify the
above named officials of the death of any
member of the House during recess in
order that the proper Congressional
escort may he appointed. Up TO n late
hour tonight no response had been re-
ceived from either of those gentlemen.
| Many telegrams of sympathy were re-
ceived by Mrs. Crisp tonight from
prominent persons. Secretary Lamont
was one of the first to send a message.
| FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS
| At O'Clock Governor Atkinson and
some representative Georgians met al
the sanitarium and in conference made
arrangements for the funeral. At their
request the family consented TO the
remains lying in state at the Capitol
| tomorrow.
II was the wish of the citizens of
Atlanta that the body be kept at the
Capitol under military guard over Sum
day too. but the family preferred to re-
turn to their home In Americus.
| At 1920 tomorrow morning, the gov
ernor State, city and county officers
members elect of the General Assembly
members OF the Atlanta Bar, and promi-
nent citizens and military officers will
escort the body from the Sanitarium TO
the Capitol in the rotunda of which the
remains will be placed on a catafaloue
Details of military will mount guard
and the top of the casket will be remoy-
cd and the citizens will be given a last
| opportunity to look upon the face of
the distinguished dead
| Early Sunday morning the body with
n large escort will leave Atlanta for
Amerlcus going by way of Macon. Upon
arriving there the remains will! be plac-
| ed In the Methodist Church and lie in
state for two hours. when General Glenn.