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A Hrtnt of Wrttlt;hMntu ~ On Saturday eveningabout H*rk, Coroner Horn was informed that a poor colored woman named hid died very suddenlyin a •mall hovel iti “Sterrett’a IWwo,” and that her t bufhsd was dying by her *id# On repairing to the •pot. t seen* Mrm—ltd itself that exceeded in wretrli-edneas anything wo hod ever heard or thought of In a deep dark cellar, lighted by oely one small window, I with m docir wire the cold damp earth, lay the stiffened corpse of the poor creature, and by her aide in the last agonic* of death lay her wretched husband — The only furniture in the horrid place, we* two or tbrm rimoij chair* and a bundle of straw and rag#, which constituted the bed of ftte occupants- In one corner of tin* cellar wa* an uncovered sink filled with stagnant wafer, whose noxious vapors loaded the at* meephere of the place with a moat horrid stench Here had these poor creatures spent their day a and nights, ami no wonder that loathsome disease had an speed i Iy wrought on them the work of death- The coroner held an imjueat on t the female, and in half an hour aftrr the husband died The verdict of the iury was i death from intemperance and exposure, having come | to this conclusion from the fact that an eronty bottle was found by the able of the deceased Measures have been taken to clear this hovel of its filth, and also to rid several like tenements in the locality of its inhabitant*, many of whom are greatly diseased.
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The Daily Dispatch
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Sat, Jun 09, 1849
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