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Show HIS SUDDEN EXIT, CEORCE SNOW A WELL-DICCER DROPS DEAD WHILE WALKING. The Pathetic Story of Lire That Began to Falter When Its Mate Was Seu.ed lly the Grim Hand of Death. Traflio encountered a ghastly obstruction ob-struction at tho corner of Fifth West and Third South streets at 7 o'clock last night, when a pedestrian, who was ! making his way to the heart of the city, stumbled against a limp and elastic mass, and, with a shudder, turned on a switch and began to survey. In tho darkness was outlined the pulseless body of soma unfortunato voyager. Tho spectacle was weird and uncanny. Hurrying to tho little drug store where geuerous lights are extended the habitants habi-tants of that neighborhood, the discoverer dis-coverer telephoned a notice to Coroner Harris. A moment later the wagon from Evans & Koss' "undertaking parlors" par-lors" came bowling onto tho scene, and tho body was thrust into its bed. There was a quick drive to the morgue, and at 2 o'clock this afternoon the old familiar faces who have constituted the coroner's cor-oner's itirv for so lone a time beean their inquiry. In the meantime it had been ascertained ascer-tained that tho name of tho man was George Suow, on the verge of CO, and a well digger, who has been living at Pitt's, across the Jordan. It was also revealed that tho luckless wayfarer way-farer had sustained tho loss of his male some two weeks ago, since which time he has been like a wingless bird. Despondency began to heap its burdens on him and tho boys noticed that ho was no longer himself. Yesterday Yester-day at fl o'clock he started for the city and nothing more was seen of bim by his acquaintances until ho was found resting on a slab in tho morgue. Coroner Cor-oner Harris is taking care of the remains re-mains and looking up the whereabouts of relatives that the last sad rites may not be administered without a tear. |