CONCOCTED DRAMATIC STORIES.
A very sensational item has lately been going the rounds of the Press,, which was accepted as perfectly correct ,and probable. It was to the effect that a free-thinking lecturer hamed Burleigh, lecturing in Illinois, published “ a card” informing his fellbw-citizens that since they had a fondness for tragedy, he had resolved to indulge them. He'undertook to deliver a lecture in Thornton Hall, at the conclusion of which he would gratify the audience by blowing his brains out, and “ secure for himself eternal peace by annihilation.” That,, the first part, at least, of bis programme, he accomplished. After the delivery of .an infidel lecture to a crowded audience, he suddenly drew a Derringer, placed it to his forehead, and shot himself. The proceeds of the lecture he had arranged should defray his funeral expenses', and the residue be spent in the works of Huxley, Tyndall, and Darwin for -the town library. Referring to this," the Chicago Inter-Ocean now declares that “ the recent despatch announcing that George W. Burleigh, an infidel barber at Capron (111.), had blown his- brains out at the conclusion of a lecture wasfalse.” It says - “ The story was written by Burleigh himself, and sold to the Chicago Times for 7dol 50c.” ,
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Kumara Times, Issue 668, 18 November 1878, Page 2
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