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Show DROPS DEAD BEFORE AUDIENCE IN TEXAS Colonel Charles Bigelow of New Haven Denounces Germany in His Last Breath. By I ntfirna tional News Service. HOUSTON. Texas. Dec. 30. With ' a burning denunciation of Germany for its atrocities against Belgium and a. plea for preparedness on his lips. Colonel Charles Bigelow of New Haven. Conn., known over the world as a traveler and lecturer, dropped dead before an audience of more ih;tn two thousand persons at the cltv auditorium here this afternoon. He had' been Talking for nearly an hour. Colonel: BiKlow. ijj years old, ret urned from the battlefields and war torn lands of Europe but a shorr Time ago and Ins lecture, here was to arouse the American people to the realization of Tjie war. His hist wards were: "Lord Ro'opris seven years zo urged Knclnd to prepare for war. They laughed at. him and threatened to take tits pension away from him for his utterances. England Eng-land thought she was safe." The body, accompanied by Mrs. Fige-low, Fige-low, will be shipped to New Haven Monday Mon-day for interment. |