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A Donas Death.—The proverb “Troth is stranger than fiction receives a further confirmation from the story of James and Jane Cole. If a novel-writer had told how the man who was responsible for the death of hit wife had on the day after the in jwret on her body was held died in the prison cells he would have been told by the aritios that his story was inartistic—that punishment does not bo closely follow on the heela of wrong-doing; and yet, humanly speaking, there can be no doubt but that the death of his wife was — indirectly, perhaps, but certainly — the sentence of death on James Cole. “Dead by the hand of Heaven la, indeed, the verdict in his case. Ho was sentenced to death before. With disease of the heart upr.n him he was liable to die at any moment. The baneful excitement of drink, superadded to his constitutional defects, had marked James Cole out as its victim for years. Then came the death of his wife, the inquest, the Jury’s he stile decision, the Coroner’s censure. All must have worked upon his mind, predisposed as it was to melancholy, and so it can fairly be said that it was his wife's death which caused Cole’s death. Into the intricacies of medical terminology we need not enter. Without them we could understand that Cole might have died before his wife's death or twenty years after it. With them to assist us we are warranted in saying that it wa3 his wife’s death which killed him. And this is certainly true that there are few cases on record in which a husband censured for having contributed to the death of his wife has bo soon after been like her carried out to be buried.The I*ooM151; Exolish Mail. — The R.M.S. Bengal arrived at Albany from Colombo at 9.45 p.m. on Monday. She may be expected to reach Gienelg early on Friday morn in p.
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Adelaide South Australian Register
Adelaide, South Australia, AU
Tue, Feb 09, 1886
Page 5
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