Diary notes, March 26, 1892

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At 6:25 he emitted a marked "Oh!" and seemed to stop breathing. Harned exclaiming, "It is all over." McAlister announced, "No, his heart still beats." After a struggle again there was a flutter of life. At 6:28 came a long gasp-we all took it to be the last. The Doctor cried, "A candle-let me have a candle." And by its light peered at W. For a minute breath was suspended. At 6:29 another slight heave of the chest, a twist of the mouth and a labored breath. Here his eyes opened but gave no sign of recognitions and languorously closed again. These were the final flickerings of life --a breath again at 6:30, 6:31 (three here overlapping each other), at 6:32 and at 6:34--and this was the last