Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-10-11 | Page 5 | Anthrax Victim Ready to Die, Sends Message to Young

Anthrax Victim Ready to Die Se Sends ds Message to Young NEW YORK YORI Oct oot 11 George George F. F Stackpole a year one old lawyer of ot Riverhead at deaths death's door in Bellevue hospital from anthrax an ailment aUment extremely extremely extremely ex ex- ex- ex rare among men but not uncommon among sheep and hee-and and cattie cattle cattle cat cat- tle tie received newspaper men at athis his bedside today and believing his death to be only a few hours away dictated this statement When my time comes I am ready to go Now that my end is near I am ready I am 71 years old and at this time in a mans man's life one must expect death at any moment To the young to whom death may come at any time as a lightning stroke let me say tay be prepared always as I am then death can have no terrors Stackpole was very weak after a night of pain and his his face face was swollen far tar beyond its normal size How he contracted the Unusual unusual unusual un un- usual malady Is not known but butt Jt t is believed he lie may have be become become be- be come corne inoculated from a hitching post in Riverhead used by farmers farmers farm farm- ers to tie their horses violet Ultra-violet rays were to be fo focused to- to on his throat today in the hope that they might destroy the anthrax g germs His wife and daughter were with him and hl hlson his hisson hisson son a junior at Dartmouth was said to be on his way here