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Show SENSATIONATi ENDING WHITAKER WRIOI-IT DIES AFTER RECEIVING SEVEN YEARS' SENTENCE. Promoter Whose Career Was Known on Doth Sides of the Pond Decs Not Live to Vcar the Stripes. At 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, Whltnkcr Wright, tho mining pro-motor pro-motor who hns been on trial in London Lon-don for absconding with funds of tho London & Globe Finance corporation, by which tho stockholders lost moro than $111,000,000, wns sentenced to seven years' jionnl (servitude At -1 o'clock ho lay dead on tho floor of a small room In tho law courts. Whothor ho took his own Ufa by poison or whether death In Its natural nat-ural cotirto robbed tho law of Its fulfillment, ful-fillment, will not bo known until n post mortem examination Is held. Tho Indications, however, point to poisoning. For nbout twenty minutes nftcr Wright had been sentenced, ho tnlked with his lnwycrs nbout his family affairs af-fairs nnd tho disposition of his remaining re-maining moneys. Ho frankly expressed ex-pressed his nmaement nt tho verdict, nnd still moro so nt tho scntonco. Suddenly Wright fell backward, ns if ho had fnlntcd. Tho officer who wns waiting to tnko him to Urlxon prison ran to King's Collego hospital, which Is nearby, for n doctor. In tho meanwhile tho unconscious man wns propped up on two chairs, Tho doctor camo quickly. Ills first thought wns that Wright had fnllcn In nn ordinary npoplectlc fit, but It was noticed that his hoart began gradually to glvo out, nnd boforo another doctor could nr-rlvo, nr-rlvo, Whltnkcr Wright, within ono hour of tho tlmo ho had been sentenced, sen-tenced, was dead. Without oxceptlon, tho London papers pa-pers express satisfaction with tho salutary sal-utary vindication of tho law in tho , caso of Whltnkcr Wright, nnd admit tho Justlco of tho verdict nnd of tho sentence Tho Standnrd olono, In nn editorial, expresses somo surprlso at tho sovcrlty or tho scntonco, on tho ground that there wns a certain do-greo do-greo of extenuation In tlio peculiar circumstances cir-cumstances which Wright wns placed iimlar. At tho snmo tlmo nil tho papers pa-pers dwolt upon tho sadness of tho final tragedy. |