The Death of Henry Burns

Burns became favorite in week, developed hallucinatory clairvoyant visions. British prize-fighting champion James Mace visited his bedside. Burns told Mace that he did not mind to die, but that he hated to leave his wife and his dog Mustard. His agony and contortions during the last few hours of existence were fearful. The Jackson Citizen Patrol said that at the age of 39, he had the parents of a man of 60. He died from what might have been pneumonia or diphtheria.