The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1857-01-30
THE DAILY GAZETTE
Aaro1Y ron rAR GRRDUL0Us.

The story OI MIS-. Erskile OecoilinS
j tbe mother Of two children after being
raised from the grave, may be treated
IA apocryphal, but the following is
ALREADY q matter Of history, and is re-
corded BY DR.. Plot, in his Chronicles
/ Of Oxfordshire:
ln ths year 1850, Anne Green, a
##.aryant ofSir Thomas Reed, was tried
! for the murder other new born child,
and found guilty. She was executed
/ IN the court yard at Oxford, where
,he hung about bali an hour. 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 re,
NAMED uhloossd and straight about
her neck, they perceived her breast to
rise, whereupon one Mason tailor,
intending only an act Of charity, set
bio foot upon her, and, as some say,
one Drum, . soldier, struck her again
with the butt-end Of his musket.-
Notwithstanding all which, when the
learned and eminent Sir William
Perry, ancestor Of the present Mar
ouis Of Landsdown, then Anatomy
Professor OF the University, DR.. Wal
liz, and DR.. Clark, then President Of
the Magdalen College and Vice Chan
cellor Of the University, came to pre-
pare the body Tor dissection, they per-
ceiysd some small rafting in her throat
] whereupon desisiing from.their iormer
purpose, they presently used means
! for hersrecovsry by opening vein,
LAYING her in q warm bed, and also
using divers remedies respecting her
senselessness, insomuch that within
fourteen hours she began tospeak, and
nsxt day talked and prayed very heart
4 ly. During the time Of this her re
coysry, the officers concerned in her
execution would needs have had her
sway again to have completed it on
4 her: but by the mediation OF the wor-
1 thy doctors and some other friends
] with the then governor OF the city,
Col. Kalsy, there was guard put mp
4 on her from all further disturbance,
It'll they had sued out her pardon from
THE government. Much doubt, in.
y deed arose as to her actual guilt
Crowds Of people in the mean time
q came 10 see her, and many asserted
M that it must be the Province Of God
Fl who would thus assert her innocence.
h After some time, DR.. Petty hearing
a she discOurssd with those about her,
n and suspecting that the woman might
Fl suggest unto her TO relate something
q Of strange visions and apparitious she
Il had seen during the time she seemed
4 to be dead (which they had already
begun to do, telling that she had been
/ in fine green meadow, having a
river running round it, and all things
there slittered like silver and gold,
shs caused all to depart from the room
but the gentlemen ofthe faculty who
b were to have been at the dissection,
Il and asked her concerning her sense
h and apprehensions during the time
she was hanged. To which she an,
swered that she neither remembered
Fl how the letters 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 waa
she sensible of any pains that she
Il could remember. She came to her
Fl self as ii she had awakened out OF
sleep, not recovering the use OF llei
speech by slow degrees, bnt in a man
ner altogether, beginning to speak
& just where she left of on the gallows
Being thus atlength, perfectly recov.
4 cred, after thanks given to God and
persons instrumental in bringing hel
y to life, and procuring her an immunity
q from further punishment, she retired
into the country to her friends al
& steeple Barton, where she was after
wards married, ami lived in good re
n pute among her neighbors, having
three children and not dying till 1859