TEE SENSATION OF DYING.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1799, 11 July 1913, Page 7

TEE SENSATION OF DYING.

POISONED BANKER'S LAST HOURS. After a remarkable fight for life, Mr. Sanders Walker, the wealthy banker of Macon, Georgia, (lied in the early hours of May 23 from tho effects of a tablet of bichloride of mercury (corrosive sublimate—a deadly poison), which ho swallowed a week before thinking that it was aspirin. it was exactly a week sinco Mr. Walker had swallowed the tablet and went to sleep again. 110 did not discover his mistake until his agony compelled him to summon a doctor. It was too late to administer an effective antidote. Air. Walker arranged all his business affairs in preparation for his end, and yet ho retained for some days a hope of recovery. He oven received nil his friends, and declared to his wife: "I believe I ain going to fool the doctors yet." He received every care that human ingenuity and skill could suggest. Medicnl men throughout the country took the deepest interest in Mr. Walker's amazing vitality and powers of endurance. Besides being a very wealthy man. he was an athlete of somo reputation and a baseball player, and his fine physique and cheerful spirits undoubtedly helped to postpone the end. When he observed his doctors whispering tho afternoon before his death ho beckoned tiMiis nurse and asked: "Did they say there is no hope? Is so, do not hesi- ' tn'te to tell me: I'm not afraid, but only sorry to leave my family." Letter, ■..when he relinquished the hands of his vife and of his two-year-old sou. whom |tr had been fondling, he observed: "If tiVs is death stealing on, it is not painlu 1, not nearly su unpleasant as is commo ii supposed. jj'i . Walker's la-it hours were soothed with music. He rose from his bed in the, irt orning, assisted by his nurse, and went i\\ ' a ' ll " le bedroom window, from which \ looked down on crowds of his fellow c>, Izpiis assembled outside the mansion to IV ,av the latest news of his con. di! ion. 'A 'wards evening he lapsed finally into imcoix scionsness. It is said '•'■at when lie. first felt tho ivonisini'' eft. "'e poison. Mr. \V'ilI;?.r (•miiici! .1 H'l of the tablet, which confined 71 ■»*. .tlnw lessening and relarding its opt '■alio"- At all events, ac--o(jiini*i ivroe in tliut iiltci' vlii? ikiiii subsided"he for tj™ days laughed at the pr^dictioii<s ol' t v° <loc'lor-', I ho'iffli lit 4 look Ihp piTciiufc 0,1 willing fliill his all'airs.