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Dined With A Corpse

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Parent Issue
Day
16
Month
July
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Ashland, Wis., July 13.- A peculiar lnstance of a fisherman eating dinner with a dead man carne to light Tuesday at the inquest over the body of O. Carlson. Monday noon Carlson, who had been feeling ill for several days, sat down to table to eat dinner. He must have died coon after, for he ivas leanir.g his head on his hands, when his partner, Olson, came in. Olson tooit no particular notiee of Carlson, except to speak to him.andproceeded 10 cook his dinner. Thishe placed on the table and seated himself opposite the corpse, asking it to join him. He did not think it strange that Carlson did not eat, because he had been ailing for two or ihree days, so Olson ate his meal in silence. When he had finished Carlson's brother came in and discovered by the staring eyes that Carlscn was dead.

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News