Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1857-04-08
REMARKABLE SES.--CRIMINALs---
WHO HAVE RETURNED TO LIFE AZ
TER EXECUTION.

W LV Hh i LIZ = AE =
TER EXECUTION.
The following singular circumstances Is re-
corded by DIR. Plot, in his Natural History
of Oxfordshire:
In the year 1850. Anne Green, servant
of Sir Thomas Reed, was tried, for the mur-
der of her new born child, and found guilty.
She was executed in the court at Oxford, and
hung about half sn hour. On being cut
down she was put into coffin and brought
away to a house to be dissected where, when
they opened the coffin, notwithstanding the
rope remained unloosed and straight about
her neck, they perceived her breast to rise,
WheFegpon one Nassau, a tailor, intending
only act cf charity, set his foot upon her; ;
and as some say, one Drum, soldier, again
struck her with the butt end Of his musket.
Notwithstanding al which, when the learned
and eminent Sir VIM. Perry, ancestor of the
present Marquis Of Lansdowne, then profes-
ser OF Anatomy in the University, DR.. Wal
lis and DIR. Clark, then President of Magde-
len College, and Vice Chancellor of the Uni
versity, came to prepare the body for dissec-
ton they perceived some small rafting In
her threat; thereupon dosisting from their
purpose, they presently used means for her
recovery. by opening vein. laying her in
warm bed, and using divers remedies respect
ing her senselessness, insonluch that within
fourteen hours. she began to speak, and the
next day talked and prayed very heartily
During the time Of her recovering, the Off
GERS concerned in her execution would needs
have had her away again, to have completed
it On her but by the meditation of the wor-
thy doctors and some other friends with the
then Governor Of the city-Colonal kelsey
there was guard put upon her from al
further disturbance, until they had sued out
her pardon from the Government Much
doubt, indeed, arose to her actual guilt.
Grow ds Of people in the meantime came to
see her, aud many asserted that Il must be
tie providence Of God, who would thus as
sent her inuocence.
After some time. DR.. Petty, hearing that
she discoursed with those about her and sus-
pectng that the women might suggest unto
her to relate something Of strange visions
and apparations she had seen during the
time she appeared to be dead (Which they bad
already begun to do, telling that she said she
had been in fne green meadow, having
river running round it, and all things there
glittered ike silver and gold) he caused all
to depart from the room but the gentlemen
of the faculty who were to have been at the
dissection, and asked her concerning her
was hanged. To which she answered, that
she neither remembered how the fetters were
knocked of, how she went out of the prison
when she was turned of the ladder; whether
any psalm was sung or not ; nor was she sen
sible OF any pain tnat she could remember.
She came to herself as if she had awakened
out OF sleep, not recovering the use Of her
speech by slow degrees, but in a manner al
together, beginning to speak just where she
left of on the gollows.
Being thus at length perfectly recovered,
after thanks given to God and the persons in
strumental in bringing her to life. and pro-
curing her an immunity from fu. ther punish
ment, she retired into the country to her
friends at Steeple Barton where she was af-
forwards married, and lived in good rcpute
amongst her neiahbors, having three children,
and not dying till 1869.
The following account of the case of
girl who was wrongly executed in 1766 is
given BY celebrated French author as an
instance of injustice which was often commit
ted by an equiyocal mode of trial then used
in France:
About seventeen years since. a young
peasant girl was placed at Paris, in the SER
vice of man, who smitten with her beauty,
tried to iuveigle her; but she was virtuous,
and resisted The prudence of this girl irri-
tated the master and he determined on re-
venge. he secretly conveyed into her box
many things belonging to him, marked with
his name He then exclaimed that he was
robbed. called In cornnissionairc, "a minis
terial officer of Justice and made his deposi-
lion. The girls box was searched, and the