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Show DEATH WINS LAST RACE! Son Wired Mother . Hps Would Be Dead In a Few Hours. . j NEW ORLEANS, La.. Jan. 6. After 1 racing with death for 3000 miles in the ! : ' desire that he might die with his fam- : ily. Daeleigh B. Perkins of this city ' died In the smoking-room of a Pullman ; sleeper in Houston, Tex., Just after he ' had filed a telegram to his mother In this city telling her that he would be dead when the train arrived here, and to make all arrangements for his funeral. fu-neral. 1 For a long time he has been suffering, suffer-ing, and finally went to California In the hope that his health would improve. im-prove. No improvement was noticeable, noticea-ble, and he decided to come home to die. The remains were taken from the train at Houston and prepared for burial. Perkins was a native of New Orleans and had gone to the West some time ago. Realizing that the end could not be far away he boarded the Southern Pacific train in San Francisco, bound for Nw Orleans. From an interior station he dispatched dis-patched a message to his mother that he was dying. Returning to the Pullman Pull-man car he laid down In the smoking car and died without a struggle. It was not until hours afterward that the fact was discovered. He was lying in a natural position, and the trainmen, knowing of his Illness, hesitated to wake him. Mr. Perkins was a graduate gradu-ate of Yale university and a member of the Greek letter fraternity, Sigma Chi. |