A MAN MURDERED !

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1960, 16 April 1875, Page 4

A MAN MURDERED !

Recently an excited, individual,. with his hat standing on two hairs of his .head like the horns oi' a snail, rushed into ,tho. 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 wellnighdistracted 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 1" " A man murdered ? " cried the coroner; " how? where.P " "Inagarding, I, believe, with a club •rrock." „ "How long ago?" cried the coroner, seizing his hat and cane. " Been done a.^ood while, and no police nor constables hasn't done nothing' about it.. Never .been no coroner, set. on the body, nor hotliirig of the kind: no Terdick " ... " What'i the dead man's name P Who was he ? " cried the coroner. "Hisname was' Abel." "Abel? Abel who?" " Don't know. Never heard nothin' but his first name." ".Well, what is the name of the man who killed him r Do they know P Any one suspected ? " " 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 J" , . ; . With a loud guffaw the fellow went down the stairg three steps at a time, the coroner calling after him,' " How dare you trifle with an officer in this way, sir."