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A Terrible Death

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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
November
Year
1876
Copyright
Public Domain
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The San Diego (Cal.) World, in a recent issue, says : " From Mr. Cassem Hirche, of San Louis Obispo, yho has been prospecting through Arizona, Sonora and New Mexico, and who arrived here yesterday eveniug, on his return home, we learn some particulavs in regard to the man Hcnry Smith, who perished on the Colorado desert some siity days ago. Mr. Hirche, in company wiüi somo other gentlemen, cune up with the unfortunate man some two ' honrs beforo he breathed his last. He wasperfectly sane up to the last moment, and told his story as best he could. Notwithstanding the disconnected way in wliich it was told, Mr. Hirche, was enabled to learn that the deceased's name was Henry Smith, and that he was on his way from California to Arizona ; that he had wandered from the main road and got loat, and had been without wator ninety-six hours, and that during the last twelve hours his life was sustained by catching and drinking hia own as well as the urine of his two burros. After he becaine too weak to do tuin any longer, in his desperate conditiou he took a razor, cut his arm and drank his own blood, and flnally his tongue became so swollen that he could uot breathe ly. He took tue razor and cut his tfiroat on each sido of the wind-pipe, thus aftording a means of getting bre.iü). Ho had on his person four Mexican dollars and five of Sanrita placer gold dust. He had also with him two burros, saddle and Mankets. The money found on his per8on was paid out for his burial xpenses. AVhilo rolling in the sand he had lost his pocket-book, containiug $20 in greenbacks. Ho said ttiat he had fortnerly lived in St. Louis, Mo., and that he had a sister living there now, and said that her name was Miss Sarah Smith ; that she had been married, but was divorced, had taken her maidcn name, and that she lived on Carondelet avenue, near the arsenal, and requested she be informed of his sad end. He picked out his burial place, gave directions as to how ho should be buried, which were followed. Deceased múd he was 28 years of ago, born on the 19th of April, 1848, and died on the 7th of September, 1876. There was a man traveling with Mr. Smith, but he would cot give his name other tnau John, aud saia ho had been ia Moxico some time, and did not want them to kuow who he was.

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