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previously published in TLS,
No. 5008, 1999,
in collection "Natural
Causes", Shoestring Press, 2003,
ISBN: 1 899549 86 2
Natural Causes
Rodriguez Petrón:
stabbed.
Eva
Waters: scarlet fever.
Van
Houten: beaten with a stone.
Chas
Helm: shot.
Holo
Lucéro: killed by Indians.
Peter
Smith: struck with a poker.
Frank
Bowles: thrown from his horse.
Freddie
Fuss: stagnant water.
John
Heath: lynched by a mob.
Thom
Cowan: diphtheria.
John
Gibson: crushed by a wagon.
Mrs
Stump: died in childbirth.
Geo
Johnson: hanged by mistake.
Billy
Kinsman: crime of passion.
Delia
William: arsenic poison.
William
Carpenter: kidney infection.
Charley
Storms: cardgame shooting.
Lester
Moore: "four slugs from a .44".
Kansas
Kid: killed in stampede.
Malvina
Lopez: charcoal fumes.
Archie
McBride: consumption.
James
McMartin: "over consumption".
Mrs
Pring: suicide, hydrate chloral.
Brady
Boys: drowned while swimming.
Foo
Kee: ptomaine poisoning.
Johnnie
Blair: smallpox.
Unknown
man: mining fall.
Mrs
Brown: natural causes.
André Mangeot
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