Cleveland (OH) Gazette, February 18, 1911, p. 4. NOTE: Consider Burkhardt as a spelling variant. A similar item appeared in another newspaper with the spelling Burkhardt. SPOKE BUT ONCE IN FIFTY YEARS English, Indiana-Insane for the last fifty years and not having spoken a word during that time, Philip Burkhart of this place is dead at the age of 90 years. During the Civil War he lost his mind. He became superstitious on the subject of witches and kept a gun loaded with needles to shoot them. Three days before he died, he broke his long silence and predicted that he was to die. He passed away within an hour of the time he named.