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#PocketLore - New Haven, Connecticut

This piece of #pocketlore is a bit of a morbid giggle. On September 11, 1899, the New Haven Register in New Haven, Connecticut reported on page 5 that William Gandy possibly met his end laughing. While he had a medical condition causing his laughter, I can only hope that I one day suffer a similar fate but through jokes.

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MAY HAVE LAUGHED TO DEATH.

Possible Fate That May Have Come to a Collinsville Man.

William Gandy, the son of John Gandy of Collinsville, has been missing for two weeks and cannot be found. He is not of sound mind and has a peculiar affliction which may have caused his death. He is subject to uncontrollable fits of laughter, and if his attention is not directed in some other channel by friends he may have laughed himself to death, his nervous system having become exhausted. He has been known to laugh for an hour or two at a time before the fit could be broken up.

Several searching parties have been made up to look for him, and although woods and fields have been searched for miles around Collinsville no trace of him has been found. It was reported two or three days ago that he had been seen near Tariffville, but it proved to be a case of mistaken identity. The missing man is 33 years old, five feet three inches tall and weighs but 96 pounds. He has light complexion, brown hair and a full beard of about four weeks' growth. When he left town he had on a light colored coat and cap and dark trousers. His friends are very anxious about him and fear that some evil has befallen him.

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