 On the inquest it was shown that Buck Fanshaw, in the delirium of a wasting typhoid fever, had taken arsenic, shot himself through the body, cut his throat, and jumped out of a four-story window and broken his neck — and after due deliberation, the...  Roughing it - Page 329by Mark Twain - 1873 - 591 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Readers - 1876 - 754 pages
...delirinm of a wasting typhoid fever, had taken arsenic, shot himself through the body, cut his throat, and jumped out of a four-story window and broken his neck,...brought in a verdict of "death by the visitation of Providence." What could the world do without juries I Prodigious preparations were made for the funeral.... | |
 | Adam Craig - American wit and humor - 1881 - 154 pages
...delirium of a wasting typhoid fever, had taken arsenic, shot himself through the body, cut his throat, and jumped out of a four-story window and broken his neck,...brought in a verdict of " Death by the visitation of Providence! " What could the world do without uries ! Prodigious preparations w.ere made iOr the funeral.... | |
 | Thomas W. Handford - Recitations, American - 1881 - 438 pages
...delirium of a wasting typhoid fever, had taken arsenic, shot himself through the body, cut his throat, and jumped out of a four-story window and broken his neck,...brought in a verdict of " death by the visitation of Providence." What could the world do without juries ! Prodigious preparations were made for the funeral.... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - English literature - 1883 - 932 pages
...of a wasting typhoid fever he had taken arsenic, shot himself through the body, cut his throat, and jumped out of a four-story window and broken his neck,...brought in a verdict of " death by the visitation of Providence." What could the world do without juries I Prodigious preparations were made for the funeral.... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - Anthologies - 1883 - 954 pages
...throat, and jumped out of a I four-story window and broken his neck, and, after due deliberation, J the jury, sad and tearful, but with intelligence unblinded...brought in a verdict of " death by the visitation of Providence." What could the world do without juries ! Prodigious preparations were made for the funeral.... | |
 | Jacob W. Shoemaker - Readers - 1881 - 226 pages
...there was great lamentatioj throughout the town, but especially in the vast bottom stratum of society. out of a four-story window and broken his neck, and,...brought in a verdict of death " by the visitation of Providence." What could the world do without juries! Prodigious preparations were made for the funeral.... | |
 | English literature - 1890 - 632 pages
...delirinm of a wasting typhoid fever, had taken arsenic, shot himself through the body, cut his throat, and jumped out of a four-story window and broken his neck,...brought in a verdict of death " by the visitation of Providence." What could the world do without juries ! Prodigious preparations were made for the funeral.... | |
 | Robert Ford - 1893 - 148 pages
...there was great lamentations throughout the town, but especially in the vast bottom stratum of society. Prodigious preparations were made for the funeral....vehicles in town were hired, all the saloons put in mourning, all the municipal and fire company flags hung at half-mast, and all the firemen ordered to... | |
 | Robert Ford - American literature - 1897 - 340 pages
...the fire department, and been a very Warwick in politics. Prodigious preparations were made for his funeral. All the vehicles in town were hired, all the saloons put in mourning, all the municipal and fire company flags hung at half-mast, and all the firemen ordered to... | |
 | Mark Twain - American fiction - 1899 - 352 pages
...delirium of a wasting typhoid fever, had taken arsenic, shot himself through the body, cut his throat, and jumped out of a four-story window and broken his neck...vehicles in town were hired, all the saloons put in mourning, all the municipal and fire-company flags hung at half-mast, and all the firemen ordered to... | |
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