Legacy Matters

Death by Kisses

Via Jason Kottke comes the filmmaker Pes who came across this tombstone in Woodlawn cemetery.

Intrigued he did more research and found this article in the New York Times in 1909 about poor George Millett who was "stabbed to death in an office frolic".

The girls only tried to kiss him for this birthday but George fended the girls, reeled and fell over as he did pierced in the heart by a blade for scraping ink that was in his breast pocket.