DYING CONFESSIONS.
•' Although the public seldom ht ar of thsm, dying confessions ot the most strange, and startling character are often made by our p-itieu's," said one of the head nurses of a great metropolitan hospital " 1 hare known many cases in which men and women, apparently pauptrs, have at the last extn mity informed us tnat they belonged to rich and aristocratic families, anil have requested us to communicate with th< ir relations. What do you think of a miserable, faded old woman, brought from one of the most povertystricken streets in London, turning out to bo
tbe sister of a nitrquis ? '• Only a few month- back a man was brought here from a miserable lodging-the complaint from which ie was suffering bung greatly aggravated by starvation When told be could not live be mad.- a Will bequeathing something 'ike £30.0C0. He was an ex-lellow ut „ | the colleges i f Cambridge Uuiversily. A man died tbeotberdaN who informed in wl.en dyniii that he hail he< u a colonel in the English ArniV, and bad been one ol tbe general, of Dou Carlos of Spam.
■• Jn one case • man tried and acquitted of murder many years ago confessed that he was. alter all. tbe «ullty man."
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2279, 22 September 1899, Page 5
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