Pottawattamie-Shelby County IA Archives News.....Sam Christensen Dies in Hospital March 19, 1921
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Council Bluffs Nonpariel March 19, 1921
MAN MYSTERIOUSLY SHOT ON MARCH 8, PASSES AWAY FRIDAY AFTERNOON
NO DESIRE TO LIVE
Said He Was Shot by Holdup But The Finding of Mail Sacks and Merchandise in 
House Cused Police to Change Opinion
Sam Christensen is dead. He passes quietly away at 2:40 o'clock and when she 
returned five minutes later the man's eyes were set.
Although nurses have been in constant attendance all day Christensen made no 
signs that he wished to give any message which would throw light on the 
mysterious shooting at his home two weeks ago and as the result of which he 
received the wounds which have caused his death. 
Dr. H.D. Kelly,police surgeon, who treated Christensen from the time of the 
shooting says the man seemed to have no desire to live and face the charges 
which would undoubtedly have been placed against him by the police. The fact 
that the man seemed to have no desire to live, the large amount of blood he 
lost when his injuries were inflicted, and the severe nature of his abdominal 
wound all combined to shorten his days, says the doctor.
Christensen was shot when he answered a knock at the door of his home tuesday, 
March 8, he said. He told police at the time that he was the victim of a 
holdup, but authorities were forced to abandon this theory later whne a 
quantity of stolen furniture and six mail sacks were found in the man's house 
at 927 Avenue I.
The bullet pierced the man's chest and traveling downward through the diaphram 
lodged in the upper intestines, inflicting a terrible internal wound and 
although Christensen is 60 years old his body hung onto live with the tenacity 
of youth in spite of the fact that the man's mind was undoubtedly set on 
death. 
Christensen is survived by one step daughter and a divorced wife, both 
residents of Counbil Bluffs

Additional Comments:
Sam was born Soren Christensen in Hornum Aalborg Denmark in 1863. He emigrated 
in April 1881, was naturalized in 1896. He married in 1900 and divorced in 
1912. He worked for the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. He was buried at 
Walnut Hill Cemetery in a crypt for single men, section 8, row 4.

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