GORDON'S DEATH.
A FORMER COMPANION SAYS HE MIGHT HAVE ESCAPED. Dβ, FbiokiSj who ■ aacorapftpiod General Gordon to Khartoum, and remained with him until his death, gaye Gordon had unlimited coiiiiderice in "himself, and inuat have misled the British as to his critical situation. " Gordoh'e character," says Dr. Fricke, "was as obstinate as it was noble. His blindness to danger, and his deafness to the warnings of hie friends, caused his death. If he had so desired he might have escaped two daje before the fall of Khartoum with all the Europeans in the place. He was speared by his own soldiers when he came to inspect them."
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Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 244, 14 October 1889, Page 4
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