A TALE OF TWINS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 564, 7 February 1873, Page 3

A TALE OF TWINS.

In .'I o’To tharc are twins win cannot ’do pv.msncd for any offence, because neither can bo identified. Recently one of ilicsc young ladies put to flight two dog-catchers and iv policeman, [n Court she proved to be lifer sister. A policeman accompanied, her homo to arrest the other, but on arriving, could not tell which he hail brought and which was already there, and went

away sorrowing without cither. That reminds us of a little story. It is told by a leading tonsuriai operator of this city ; but ho was not the victim. A boss barber was waited upon one morning at his shop in a neighboring city by a nice young gentleman, who desired the hairdresser’s lowest terms per week for heaping his comely caput iu condition. A moderate sum was named and accepted. Thereafter the new customer appeared regularly each day for a “ close shave,” with frequent additions of shampooing and hair-cutting, and often twice a day. In short, thabarter marvelled much at the rapidity with which that young man s hair grow, and the mystery was only solved after a considerable lop=o of time, when “ two of him’’ came into the shop at onco to be shaved. The long and short of it is’ that the original customer who made the bargain had a twin brothar, so exactly like him iu personal appearance that “you conldn t toll t other from which,” and the two had been getting their little shaves and things for the price paid for one. EXTRAORDINARY DEATH OF A MURDERER. James Flynn, who was condemned to death at the hist Manchester assizes fortho murder of Julianna Navin, with whom he had been cohabiting at Oldham, and whose execution was fixed to take place at the Salford hundred prison, cn Monday next, died in his cell on Monday afternoon, under very extraordinary circumstances. The

culprit, at his trial conducted himself with great calmness, but immediately after Ills condemnation, on being removed to bis cel conducted biinself in'a most violent manner, and refused any food from the day of bis condemnation. On one occasion the stomach pump was used by the surgeon of the prison to introduce food into bis stomach, but so violent was the conduct of the cnpnt that his throat was frightfully lacerated, and it was found to bo impossible to got him to take food in any shape. Ho sank from sheer exhaustion on Monday, being the twelfth day that ho had boon without nourishment. Tho deceased was a Roman Catholic, and had been attended by the Rev. Father Clarkson,

Some remarkable evidence of determination was given at the inquest. It appears that after a pint of gruelly broth had been injected into his- stomach by means of a stomach pump, Flynn placed his fingers into his month and vomited tho food, Tho jury returned a verdict of .death from exhaustion, caused by wilful abstinence from tool'.—Glasgow Mail.