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Show TURNS ULACK AT DEATH. rale of Adnlch K.a.nar, lllll.ii by a IIimI llitllr.naha. After living mors than two years in agony and nrsluall turning ss blsek as a negro, Ailolph Kessner died recently re-cently In San Antonio aged 31 years. He waa poiaoned l a rattlesnake's bite. Tho li was of the blondo German Ger-man type and unusually fair, but at the tlmo ot his death his skin waa close to ebony In olor Ills ftthar ownt San I'edro'a Hnrlnia a suburban resort re-sort It Is of hilly and rocky ground nnd tho chaparral thereabout Is thickly thick-ly populsted with rtlileantkei. Krom a child oung Kesilcr had shown a peculiar pe-culiar anlmorlly to these reptiles and hunted them industriously. Ha seemed seem-ed to havo no fear of them whatever. When he got older he took to tklnulng them v-htn dead and utlng their hides and at one time he had aome hundreds of tit tklna In the houte. Eight yean ago be aold them lo a man who wished to makt cravatt of them Since then he bad disposed of many other skins. Ho bad never before bren bitten His method ot killing thrin wn peculiar. He tiled no weapon. When he found a tnakt colled ready for Itt spring he would throw a stick at It and Irritate It Into leaping. Tim ht would coolly main tbe reptile's head with his heel. Ho said that he got no satlafactlon from shooting theni or slaying them with 3 club. Tho rsttleintke toes blind In July for a little while and Is at that tlmo especially venomous. In July.lltS, Kessner found a large one near bli father"! house and stamped It at utual. Ho aetted It by tht tall and started Into In-to tho houtt to show It to bla father Tho antko wss not qulto dead. II twisted 'i his hand, Its mangled head rame In conttrt with h't right Ihlgh, nctr the hip. tnd It burled Its fangt In I lilt fleth. Toe wound waa treated with ammonia, the young man drank a tot of whllr!"'-l,Pr,nl,J, WM ,,lH' tho wone for the blto. Ten daya aft' erward the tkln around tht wound began be-gan to darken and In a llttlo while was a bluish black. Thla thade extended over hit body nnd up and down hit limbs. It ttcended to the neck and thence to his face. Pnr a whllo tho lower part of Ills face was black and the remainder white When Kessner died the Mack ehldo had attended to the roots ot hla hair, and but for hit cqulllue feature ho would hsvo been taken at first glance for a negro. During Dur-ing all thlt time he wit tormented with racking palm In hit limbs, similar sim-ilar to rheumttlo twinge, and waa alto al-to troubled with Inaoninla. Tho paint grew wone at tlmo went on, and Just before hit death they were almost unendurable. |