The Cause of a Fat Man's Death.
—^ « • The town of Wartburg, Tennessee, has just lost its fattest citizen, Samuel Scolt by name, who weighed 350 pounds. I*»'ow, that is not an unheard-of weight by any means. Many a man has carried that burden to a clam- bake in the most cheerful and jaunty manner; but the lamented S^ott was rather short and otherwise unequal to it. The peculiar feature*of his death ia that he died in his bed, and that except for the bed he could not have died ajjrall. His physician had forbidderi jhftn to lie down, and for a considerable itime past he had been accustomed to -sleep on his knees with his head resting on a chair — a difficult art in which he had become singularly expert. But pne^ night he determined to sleep in his bed if he died for it — and he died for it.
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 30, 14 August 1883, Page 3
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