A PATHETIC VIGIL.
■ ♦ DEATH IN A MAUSOLEUM
After spending most of the last ten years in his wife's tomb in the cemetery at New York, Mr Jonathan Reed, an aged and retired merchant, was found mortally stricken with apoplexy in a furnished room within the mausoleum. Air Reed never missed spending the entire day in the tomb, and would sit beside, his wife's coffin talking to the body. He placed in the mausoleum all his wife's fancy work and her parrot, as he. was under the delusion that she was merely asleep.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8333, 3 June 1905, Page 4
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92A PATHETIC VIGIL. Star (Christchurch), Issue 8333, 3 June 1905, Page 4
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