by truthseeker 18 Replies latest jw friends
I would be interested to know how Charles T. Russell actually died.
It's said he died on a train in 1916, but there are no specifics.
Did he have a heart attack, cancer or something? Did someone want him out the way?!
Was there any report made by a chief medical examiner?
Death by excessive bullshititis. Quincy ME.
I think his body just ran out of bull-shit.
RR posted a scanned document last autumn that claimed that Russell may have been poisoned.
Unfortunately, the image link no longer works....wish I had downloaded it, as it was somewhat interesting.
Bible Students throughout that portion of the world reached by the Associated Press were shocked last Wednesday morning to find on the front pages of their morning papers the above meager news of the death of their most beloved leader, Pastor Charles Taze Russell, the dispatches merely adding that he was accompanied by his secretary, M. Sturgeon, and that the cause of death was heart trouble.http://www.heraldmag.org/olb/contents/history/st%20paul%20memorials.htm
This is what I am also wondering about, as to the cause of his death i read that it was heart attack which were rather rare in those days, or in another place they mentioned cystitis. Some people speculate about a conspiracy to kill him and find the telegram sent to Rutherford "the old man has died" rather suspicious. Why not say Brother Russell has died.
He stopped breathing.
Ken P.
You can find an account of Russell's last days and his death on the train made by his companion Menta Sturgeon here:
http://www.godstruthfortoday.org/BibleStudents/PastorRussellsLastDays.html
~Merry
Saw a report of his autopsy and it read something like this:
Incise toe: Shit pours out. Incise knee: Crap poars out. Incise elbow: Caca poars out. Incise ear: Turd poars out. Incise neck: Poop poars out.Final report: Cerebral hemorrage.
Russell wasn't one of the "Millions Now Living", so of course he died.
