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Show TOO HASTY A DIAGNOSIS. Victim's Glass Eye Nearly Condemned Condemn-ed Him to Death. Stories of railroad accldonts wor being told at Tuxedo. Spencer Trask, hanker and nuthor, of New York, said: "In n, certain railway collision one of tho -victims lay for a long tine on Ms hack across tho ties. Finally two men picked him up nnd carried him to tho station and placed him on tho floor. "'Ho'll llo easier hero,' they said, 'till tho doctor comes.' "Tho doctor camo a llttlo later. "The poor chap Is done for, I'm afraid,' ho said, glancing nt the pros-trnto pros-trnto victim, "Then ho knelt down, lifted ono of tho man's closed eyelids, and peered Into a dull, blank, unseeing, lifeless oyo. "'Yes, he's dead all right. Tako him away,' said the doctor. "But the pale lips of the Injured man moved sllghtlj', nnd a fceblo volco murmured: "'That was my glass eye. you fool." Now York Trlbuni |