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lli C LLwpU J S1VJ LU LI c* L LI I (ft I Li I J .• [to be continued.]A Corpse Wanted—A Letter from a Live Dead Man—A Romantic Story.We clip this graphic sketch from theJewish Record, of May 5.We are in a quandary, we are embarrassed. On the one hand we have a letter from a man who is dead and who wants us to print his dying remarks, while on the other hand we have ocular demonstration that he is “ alive and kicking/' As some of our readers may be able to help ue in our dilemma, we hasten to lay the facts before them.Some two months ago we wore waited on by a party who introduced himself as Rev. Dr. Delbanco. of Dayton, Ohio. He told a plausible tale, and we relieved what ho styled his immediate necessities. Conversing with a friend a day or two after, we were convinced that we had been imposed on, and when Dr. Delbanco again visited the Record office he was informed that we could not be “taken in and done for” the second time. Thus matters stood, till Sunday last, when, on going to the Post-box of the Record, the editor found a letter dated April 27th, signed Dr. Delbanco, in which the writer says:‘‘When this will reach you, I am no longer among the living; bat will be .where no slander and no malice on the par.t-of-m-y enemies, the so called benefactors of mankind, can reach me. I had formed a similar resolution already some time ago, but have been interfered with by Dr. F. and Mr. T. I shall take care this time of being interrupted by nobody. As my last wish in life 1 bind it upon your soul to give this my last expression a place in your periodical as a partly tribute to truth and justice/’The writer then gives a history of his life, which, if he was to be believed, had been devoted to truth; but which had been made miserable by a set of slanderers, among whom he classes some of the most prominent Israelites in the United States.After wading through eight pages of this sort, the writer winds upas follow:“ Another thing I should like to ask ofyou. Israelites are so anxious of burying their fellowmen that before they acquire a house of worship, before they engage the services of a minister, nay before they even form into congregation, they buy a burying ground. Please perform that Mitzvooh on my corpse, which you will find at theWavorly House, Room No. 30.”. With that courtesy so characteristic of the editors of the Jewish Record, on receipt of the letter, we proceeded up Broadway, for the purpose of seeing after the “corpse/’ But we leave our readers to imagine our astonishment when we, nearing Amity street, saw a man whom we thought was Dr. Delcanco actually walking. .Were we dreaming? What was the matter? In our hand was a letter in which the living man said he had “died,: two days before. The word of a dying man in law is held to be true; but yet, if “ e’er Dr. Delbanco moved and breathed, there Delbanco walked.” Determined to solve the mystery we called on our friend Captain Caffrey of the 15th Police Precinct, who requested officer Barker to call at the Wav-erly House. He did so, and found that the dead man, after eating breakfast, had gone out that morning and would be home at dinner time, and also that there was no (l corpse” in Room 30.Under these circumstances, we trust Dr. Delbanco will exonse us in not publishinghis dying request. We must also decline• #the honor of burying him, unless ho leaves more accurate direction where to find ms corpse.
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Cincinnati Israelite
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Fri, May 12, 1865
Page 3
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OH, USA 28 Aug 2020
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