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Show THE SIAMESE TWINS. New York, 26. A dispatch fro1" Mount Airy says that Dr. Willia1" Hollingsworth, wh attended the Siamese Twins, is of the opinion that the death of Eng was not caused by any vital connection of the artery passing from one to the other through the ligament that united them, and he believes there was no such vital connection through the ligament, because he has attended thft T".'iris when one was sick and the other in good health, and when there was as iijuch jib twenty beats diher-enee diher-enee to the minute in their pulsation. pulsa-tion. The bodies, after being embalmed, em-balmed, were placed in a coffin and encased in a large tin lox, which wits soldered and made air tight. All was then put in a large wooden box and packed in charcoal, made secure and placed in the collar of the house. It is reported that the bodies will be disposed dis-posed of at an enormous price to eonie museum or medical college, or placed on exhibition. This is to be subject to the decision of the members mem-bers of the family. Tho charge is made that a mystery has been thrown over the death of the TwinB and the real cause of their decease suppressed, for the purpose of obtaining possession pos-session of the bodies for the above stated object. |