Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1895 — A Sensible Verdict. [ARTICLE]

A Sensible Verdict.

A coroner in Nevada recently reasoned out a verdict more sensible than one-half tlie verdicts usually rendered. It appeared that an Irishman, conceiving that a little powder thrown upon some green wood, would facilitate its burning, directed a small stream from a keg upon the burning piece, but not possessing nfdiaiul sufficiently quick to cut this off was blown into a million pieces. The following was the verdict, delivered with great gravity by the official: “Can’t be called suicide, bekase he didn’t mean to kill himself; it wasn’t ‘visitation of Gor,’ bekase lie didn’t die for want of breath, for'lie hadn’t anything to breathe with; it’s plain he didn’t know what he was about, so I shall bring in—died for want of common sense.”