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Show Death of the Tallest Man on Berth. BATWOBB, Jan 21. "Colonel" Pickett Nel-son, Nel-son, who claimed to be the tallest man on earth, died hero yesterday. He had been 111 for three weeks with typhoid fever. His body measured eight feet five inches in length, and in health he weighed 387 pounds, After death bis frame relaxed and became four inches longer than it had been. Nelson Nel-son is a colored man, and was born in 1871 in F.ssex county, Va. Both his parents were rather smaller than than tho average. |