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Show LIVED WITH A CORPSE. The Body of An Old Man Lies for Four Months 111 u House FiUeu Willi Lodger. Denver, March 17. John Kclluher found something awful iu room 3 of the old Missouri Mis-souri house at No. 141ft Thirteenth street. It wu the blackened and rotting corpse of Patrick N'ooney, which had lain there for four months, with lotsuf other lodgers living In rooms all around tho death chamber. Mrs. Catharine Wortmau .wus the lodging-kotUMk lodging-kotUMk which is cut up into dozens of emull Bx8 aparlmcuts. In oqo of these old r?trlck Nootiey lodged whenever he was in the city, i NooncyS liusiucss was peddling cough drops j and be frequently took long pilgrimages ; Ukiting several mouths, aud would turu up in the city and sojouru for a season at Mrs. Wortmans. Thinking the old man was off ou one of his trips, .Mrs. Worttnan diu not suspect the awful presence of (loath. This morning she grew Impatient at Mr. Nooney'a long absence ab-sence and concluded to rent to a more remunerative remu-nerative tenant. When she tried the door and found it lacked eho grew uneasy, and an apprehension of the dreadful fact seemed to come over her. She called Mr. Kelleher, Who broke In the door, aud there lay the old sexageuarlan, half covered with bed clothes and swollen and distorted with the process of mortification. Among soma books and papers were found explicit directions us to what disposition of himself and blfl effects should be made iu Base of death. The entry was dated Decern-her Decern-her 38, 1891, and stipulated that he should be buried at Riverside cemetery, in a coffin to cost 475, and that his slater, Mrs. Margaret McJohn of 41H West Taylor slreet, Chicago, should be notified to come to Denver and sell his lots, Nos. 85 and 86, block 14, in Shackeltqn pint, and valued at 1X900. He entered into further detail as to how his grave wus to be decorated. . m a . - |