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Remarkable Cases.---Criminals who havo

- Ntir tDlIoW:3I NlhnUl I circumstance i re-
Corded, by Dr. Plot, IN his Natural History
cf Nzford>hire:
In the year 1850, Anne Green. Il servant
ofSir Thomas; lead, WIS tried for the muir
der OF her newborn ciiiIL, and found guilty
She was executed in the court yard ut OK
ford, and hang about half IN hour. On be-
ing cut down She WAS put into Il coffin and
brought away to Il lousc to be disScc,rh :;
where, when they opened the coffin, hot
withstauding the rope remained unlooscd
and straight about her neck, they perceived
her breast to rise, whrreupon one Nassau, II
tailor, intending only an act Of charity, set
his foot upon her; and, as some say, one
Drum, n soldier again struck her with the
butt end Of his muskrt. Notwithstanding
all which. when the learned AMI eminent
Sir VIM. Ferry, ancestor of the present
Marquis rf I..r>G,wnr. then Professor Of
Anatomy ii: the university. DR.. Wallis and
DR.. Cllr!1, then i';r>;,ln, OF Magdalcn Col
Ic.sa, ard Vie" Chancellor Of the University,
canc 70 p:,l,ilr the i,,ty :ivr dissection, thcv
perceived .olnc s,Ial! rafting in her throa: :;
th"r upon dr~;,:Inr from their former l.ur
pose, they presently used me; n for her recov.
cry. hv Opening = Vein, layiny her i'll a warm
\, Il, aud also u>Inl. divers, iem, dies rcsp,tt
her scnscle>S, illsomuc!l that within fouit tecn
hours Sic br-an to speak aud the ,ext day
talked aid l,:ayrL very heartily. During
the time OF her recovering the officers con
cernc.l il. her cX"cution would needs have
had her away again. to lave completed i,
on her; kat iv the mediation ofthc worthy
doctors aul snmc o:hcr ricirl> with the
then Governor ui the civ--Co!onel Kelsey
there guard pu' upon her from all
further disturbance, until they had sued
out her pardon from the Government. Much
doubt, indeed, Hr,.>c as to her actual guilt.
Cl,wds Of rv"Il. in tie meantime came to
&c her, and maLv asserted tha, it mus, be
the providence Of God, who would thus as
sert her Innocence.
After some time, DR.. Petty, hearing That
she liSrnurscL with those about her, and
suspecting that the woman might suggest
unto her 10 relate something OF strange Wis
ions and appa:itions she had seen during the
time she appeared to be dead (Which they
ha,i already br"un 10 d., tellng that she
had been in Il fin" green meadow. having n
river rnnnin" round il, aud all things there
glittercd Ike silver and @oll) he caused ali
to depart from the room bu, the gentleman
of the faculty wLu We're to have b.cn ut the
dissection, ami asked her concerning her
sense and apprchcn,iuns during the time
she WAS hanged. TO Which she answered.
that she neither remembered how the fr.rrs
We're knocked OF; how she went out of the
prison When she was turned off the ladder :;
whether any psalm WAS sun" or not {; nor
was She sensible Of amy pam that 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 altogether. beginning to speak
just where she left off on the gaI!ows.
Being thus at length perfectly recovered.
after thanks given 10 God and the persons
instrumentalim i'll bringing her to life and pro-
curing her all immunity from further pun
ishlnent, she retired into the country to her
friends mt Stccplc Barton, where she was af
terwards married, and lived in good rcpute
amongst her ncigllbors, having three chill
dren, and not dying till 1850
The following account of the case of girl
who was wrongly executed in 17GG is given
by celebrated French author, as an i'll
stance ofthc injustice Which was often com
mitted by the equivocal mode of trial then
used in France
~. About seventeen years since, young
peasant girl was placed at Paris,in the SER
vice of a man who, smtten with her beauty,
tried to inveigle her but she was virtuous,
and resisted. The prudence Of this girl
irritated the MASTER and he determined on
revenge. lie scretly conveyed into her box
many things belonging to him, marked
with his name lie then exclaimed that
he was robbed caEcd in commissaires, "a
ministerial officer Of ius,ce,) and made his
disposition. The girls box was searched,
and the things was discovered. The un
happy servant was imprisoned.
She defended herself ouly 10y her tears :
she had no cvilcnre 10 prove that she dill
not put the property in the box; and her
only answer to the intcrrogatorS was, that
she was innocent. The judges had no sus-
picion Of The deprvity Of the accuscr,
whose station was respectable, and they ad-
mIistered the law in Ill IFS vigor The in
noccnt girl was conlcmnch TO lie hanged.
The dreadful Office was Intellectually per.
formed, as it was the iirst attempt of the
son OF the chief executor. y surgeon hal
purchased the body ior dissection, and it
was conveyed to his house. On that eve.
Ding. being about to open thehead, he per-
ceived gentle warmth about the body
The disscctng knife fell from his band, and
he placed i'll Il bed her whom hc was about
to. dissect.
Ills effort 10 restore her TO life were cffec-
tual, and at the salrc lime he sent for Il
,clcrgyman$on whose discretion and cx,.-
rfence he could depend, in order to consult
wltl.him on This strange event, AS well rs
to have linn for Il witness TO restoration.
,Ihe'momcnt the unfortunate girl opened
her eyes she believed herself in the other
world, and perccivhg the figure ofthe priest
who bad Unmarked and majestic coun!e-
@hsnce, slc joined hcr'bands trembling and
.exclairped External Father, YOU Know nv
Innocence, have pity on me !" In this
manner she CONTINUED to invoke the eccle!
slasaie, believing in her simplicity, that size:
beheil ;bts God. Phcy were long in per-
Z sna'inS her that she was not dcad-so
much had the idea of tho nDni sb p.rt.,uJ oF