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Before he died his ante-mortem statement was taken, when he said he just had a glimpse of the person who struck him, and he believed his assailant was Joe Porter. He remained conscious to the last, and the parting with his wife and family was very affecting. He asked Eddie to be faithful to his mother, which he promised to be. "Oh, Ruth," he said, "I have been a very unfaithful husband.
"Such reparation will be small consolation to us, your Majesty," said the Archbishop of Cologne, speaking for the first time. "My preference is for an ante-mortem rather than a post-mortem adjustment of the law.
A telegram already had come from Smith in the far-away Montana town, transmitting news that disturbed him more than he cared to admit. The showgirl was lying at the point of death, and he was having a very hard time of it trying to keep the resolute authorities from swooping down upon her for the ante-mortem statement they desired.
Therefore, it remained for me to find it. Well, the cryptic writing was solved, pretty soon; but the solution came like a crash of thunder, revealing the one twist toward the end that I had least expected. And, worst of all, I should have known! Chaya's ante-mortem statement, properly attested by Dr. Larrimer, Dr.
I can't make use of such an ante-mortem statement as that." "I never before knew a man to tell the truth," said the Chief of Police, "when dying of violence." "Violence nothing!" the Police Surgeon said, pulling out and inspecting the man's tongue "it is the truth that is killing him." The Massacre
Holtum, the Conservative candidate, who lay so long on the bed of sickness, was prepared to swear to Mr. Bloomfield. "I will swear to it in any court it was the hand of that brute that struck me down," he was reported to have said; and when he was thought to be sinking, it was known that he had made an ante-mortem statement in that sense.
Somehow, the look of the sheriff's Sunday coat, wrinkling forlornly from his broad, bent shoulders, was both touching and solemn. He said simply: "He's conscious and not out of his head. They're gone in to take his ante-mortem statement," and they went into the room. Harkless's eyes were bandaged. The lawyer was speaking to him, and as Horner went awkwardly toward the cot.
The description of the man tallied exactly with the appearance of the tramp my uncle had thrashed, and something he said in his ante-mortem statement, made us very sure of the fact. Mose, until the time of his death, was an honored member of the household, but he did not long outlive the Colonel.
Grand!" cried Sir Patrick, as he stretched himself fifty fathoms below the imaginary surface of the water, and gave explicit ante-mortem directions to the other Scots lords to spread themselves out in like manner. 'Half ower, half ower to Aberdour, 'Tis fifty fathoms deep, And there lies gude Sir Patrick Spens, Wi' the Scots lords at his feet. "Oh, it is grand!" he repeated jubilantly.
We wrangled over a good many ante-mortem outbursts, but I finally got him to cut his obituary down to this, which he copied into his memorandum-book, purposing to get it by heart: "I DIE THAT FRANCE MIGHT LIVE." I said that this remark seemed to lack relevancy; but he said relevancy was a matter of no consequence in last words, what you wanted was thrill.
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