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stronger and more deadly. No further redress was ob- 

 tainable ; and poor Warren, acknowledging his death- 

 warrant, used to say, as Deutsch had often said before him : 

 "When I die something may yet be done." Then came 

 pleurisy, pneumonia, and bronchitis in quick succession, 

 and being too weak to shake them off, he died. Dr. Hullet 

 Brown, of 55, Gordon Square, who attended Mr. Warren 

 in his illness, and made the famous expedition to the den, 

 is witness whether we have told his story truly. Indeed, 

 the story has never been questioned for a moment, except 

 in a double-edged paragraph furnished hy Mr. John Cleave, 

 (Accountant of the British Museum), to the Civilian, Dec. 

 5, 1874. That paragraph said : 



" Our contemporaries, the Pall Mall Gazette and the Globe, are in 

 error in attributing Mr. Warren's death to the imperfect ventilation 

 of the room in which he was employed. It is true that the ventila- 

 tion is supposed not to be perfect, and is also true that very many 

 years ago, he induced his medical adviser to report on the sanitary 

 condition of the department. The fact is, Mr. Warren had every con- 

 cession made to him. He really fell a victim to hard work performed 

 outside of the department, and which he was compelled to undertake, 

 with a view to supplement the wretched salary he received from the 

 Museum." 



This paragraph had two objects. First, to absolve Mr. 

 Jones and Mr. Rye from blame, and, second, to make a 

 hit against those who, by refusing to increase the Museum 

 salaries, had inflicted personal injury on them and their 

 satellites. However, in three weeks the Civilian, a fair 

 and honourable advocate of the cause of subordinates 

 against officialism, frankly published the following correc- 

 tions (Dec. 26, 1874) : 



" We have to withdraw, in the most complete manner, a statement 

 made by us, some weeks since to the effect that Mr. Warren died from 

 the effects of excessive unofficial labour, which he was compelled to 

 undertake in consequence of his small salary from the British 

 Museum. We deeply regret that we were induced to publish a state- 

 ment which has caused much pain to the bereaved relatives of our 

 late colleague." 



So there was an end to that attempt of falsification. 



