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Show Other Sudden Deaths. On the day that little George Hill died so suddenly at his home in the Fifteenth Ward, Mary E. Hall, n child throe years old living with her parents in the Hill house, was taken sick, the symptoms being similiar to those of the d creased boy. On the next day Mary J. Hill, a three-year-old sister of the dead boy, was also seized with the same complaint. These last two cnildren suffered but a short time, the former dying Saturday night; the latter yesterday morning. The suspicion which had existed at the death of George that it was the effect of poison, was almost confirmed in the equally sudden and singular demise of the other children, under exactly the saaie circumstances, and led to a post morlan examination of the IitUo girls yesterday, under the directions of Coroner Taylor, Drs. Benedict and Dr. Anderson performing perform-ing the operation. The coroner's jury adjourned to meet again at 4 p.m. to-day to hear the report of the physicians phy-sicians ;is to the probability of the children having been poisoued. It is understood that the doctors found nothing to indicate that death it either case had been occasioned by poisoning, but that the children died from scarlatina of a-malingant type. |