A MAN MURDERED.

Dunstan Times, Issue 681, 7 May 1875, Page 1

A MAN MURDERED.

Recently an excited individual, with liis hat standing on two hairs of his head like the horns of a snail, rushed into the office of Coroner Holmes, New York. The coroner is by profession a dentist, and his first thought as he glanced at the man, was that he was well nigh distracted with tooth-ache. He was soon undeceived, however, as the frenzied individual cried out as soon as he could catch his breath after running up stairs—- “ Been a man murdered !” “ A man murdered ?” cried the coroner ; “ how 1 where 1” “In a garding, I believe, with a club or rock.” “ How long ago ?” cried the coroner, seizing his hat and cane. “ Been done a good while, and no police nor constables hasn’t done nothing about it. Never been no coroner set on the body, nor nothing of the kind : no verdick- ” “ What was the dead man’s name 1 Who was he ?” cried the coroner. “ His name was Abel.” “ Abel 1 Abel who 1” “ Don’t know. Never heard nothin’ but his first name.” “ Well, what is the name of the man who killed him ! Do they know I Any one suspected 1” “Well, I’ve heard that a fellow named Cain put out his light. Cain was the brother of Abel, and—” Coroner smells a rat, and flourishing his cane cries, “You get down them stairs, my fine fellow. Vanish, and 'don’t show yourself here again !” With a loud guffaw the fellow went down the stairs three steps at a time, the coroner calling after him, “How dare you trifle with an officer in this way, sir,”