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j the heat and overwork, and fell in a tinting tit on the pavement. He gasped a aw times and ail was over. He died at iis post.Many firemen were injured. James ►cully and Charley Osgood, who held the iozzIc, were badly scorched. Mr. \V. Znais was injured on the head by a falling ►rick. Mr. Wallace Goodall injured by a ailing box. slightly, aud many others whose tames have escaped us.At one time it was thought impossible to ave Doc. Sullivan's building on the eerier of M liu and Green, but his Irishriends rallied around him and warded off he danger.Mr. Geo. Devin, as usual, was at the front and periled his life to save the prop-Lrty of others.“ovefTth*eriver.”A. Elan found Hanging by the Neck on a Log.Suicide or Murder.On la-t Friday, the workmen engaged in cutting ice on tho river, discovered the body of a man hanging by the neck to a log. on the point opposite Court street. The morning was extremely cold, the thermometer standing 14 degrees below zero. The feet outlie “unfortunate'' were restingof the river; his feet were touching the ice; there was no appearance ot struggling,; had his cap pulled down over liis ears. I ordered him to be taken down and conveyed to the Mayor's office. The snow looked as though a body had lain on it just above the log; the legs were crossed and the arms bent. The rope was not tied by a knot, but wrapped around the log and the end tucked under.S. B. Thrall sworn, says he is a physician and surgeon; has examined the body before the jury ar.d finds no mark of injury on the body except around the neck; there is a deep indentation, apparently such as would bo made by a rope, and such as must have been made while the person was alive and such as would cause death by strangulation.E.!.. Lathrop sworn, says he resides in Ottumwa, and is a physician and surgeon; have examined the body before the jury ; found marks of a tojk* around the neck which must have been made while the body w.i- living or warm: the body is now frozen. I also found an « misi««u of semen which always accompanies death by stragu-lation.A. J. Burk* tt says he resides in Ottumwa; occupation, a saddler. I recognize the body before the jury as that of a man who ate supper with me at my boardiug-house last evening; he seemed nervous like a man that had been drinking. He said.in
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Ottumwa Democrat
Ottumwa, Iowa, US
Thu, Jan 23, 1873
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