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Show CREMATED ALIVE. Horrible Hulolde of a l'rl.oner In the San Francl.co Jail San Francisco, Feb. 4. A horrible sulcldo occurred Tuesday in tho San Francisco county jail and two prisoners prison-ers narrowly escaped death. Anthony llurgle, who on July 14, 1807, shot Slgmund llravcrman, a jeweler, and received a seven-years scntonoo for bis crlmo, committed suicide by burning himself to death in his cell. Ho securod coal oil from tho stovo which was used to heat tho coll and poured It over his clothes, whllo tho other prisoners wero asleep. Ho then ignited the oil and In a few seconds his entlro body was enveloped in flames. Tho cell caught flro and soveral of the Inmates wero also badly burned before the flro was subdued. The prisoner lived but a very short tlmo. llurgle had made several unsuccessful attempts to destroy himself. |