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Show Watching Death ArpROAcmso. None of us can know how we would act in a supreme moment of revealed fate. Edgar Poa or Victor Hugo could not have imagined a form ol death more completely calculated tu test the victim's fortitude than the terrible scene which terminntod the life of on John Conhin, at Norwich. Conlan, who was a piatol maker in that city, wrb walking on the railway track at Norwich falls, at a point where there 'is a double switch, and accidentally bad one foot caught in a "frog," jD such a way that be was un'thle to ex tricate it. A northern bound train was coming at full speed, and Oji;1 m, finding himself unable to escape hia docm, ball turned, in bis chrtintri position, and laced tne engine (literally (liter-ally an engine of death) in a ceiiant way, and almost smiled a it struck him. His body was Iritfhilully mangled mang-led almost literally torn to picet under the remorseless wheels and when picked up it presented a horrible sight. A part ot hie clothing, in which was his revolver, was torn from him by the engine and carried to Wiliiamanlic belore it whs discovered |