Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1904 — Franklin’s Fate Prefigured. [ARTICLE]

Franklin’s Fate Prefigured.

The fate of Franklin, the explorer, was unwittingly prefigured, and on the eve of his starting on his last voyage, at the hands of his own devoted wife. As he lay dozing on a sofa Lady Franklin threw something over his feet, on which he awoke in consternation, saying: “Why, there’s a flag thrown over me! Don’t you know that they lay the union jack over a corpse?”