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Show ou FAMOUS DWARF DIES AFTER EXTENDED CAREER aUDDLBBORO, Mass.. Nov. 1. Count Prlmo Magrl. 71, aeoond husband hus-band of Mrs Tom 1 hum. and himself la famous dwarf, died at a hospital (Sunday after an illnets of iwo weeks. Two w eeks ago Count Mfagri held an auction sale of the late Tom Thumb's i-tf-ns and those of his wife and with i the proceeds planned to- return to Italy, the country of his birth-1 birth-1 Count Magrl was born' In Bologna tin ISO He first appeared on an ! Hal. an stage in 1 S t amf, hts success j wa.s so murkej that four years later he received his title from Pope Pius IX. He and his brother Ernest, another I dwarf, came to the United States in 11878 and later joined the famous Bar-inum Bar-inum troop which Included Mr and Mrs. Tom Thumb, In 1 885, two years latter the death of Tom Thumb, the widow ".is married to "'nun' M:iprrl at .Trinity church, N'..-w Ycrk |