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Show JESSE BUNKER IS K I LIED B r HE IS YOUNGEST SON OF ONE OF SIAMESE TWINS. He Was Prosperous, and Though a Deaf Mute, Was Intelligent and Entertaining. Winston-Salem, N. C. June 12. Jesse Bunker, a deaf mule, youngest son of Chang, one of the "slamcso twins, was killed by lightning yesterday yes-terday in his tobacco barn in Surry county. He and his son and workman took shelter in a barn during a rainstorm. rain-storm. Hunker's hat and shoes werp lorn to pieces, but tho body was not bruised bruis-ed or niul Hated. The son and tho workman were knocked senseless, remaining re-maining In this condition for an hour or more-hunker more-hunker was IS years old and prosperous. pros-perous. He was Intelligent and entertaining en-tertaining and enjoyed conversing with his friends through the medium of pencil and paper. The Siamese twins married Virginia Allen. Their sons have nil been well-to-do and prosperous pros-perous men. The peculiar Inheritance of deafness was an affliction that added add-ed an additional strangeness to the family. The mute was bright and quick of wit. though In each branch of Vic family there seems to have been more, or less a freak of nature. The oldest boys of the Chang family have gone Into the other sections. |