Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1858-12-21
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English papers give aecounts. of 4 sin !.
gular restoration 70 life Of y young giil. F.
The following particulars Of this remark
able affair are published ~ the BirminDg-
ham Post
The girl, whose name is Amelia Kinks.
is twelve OF thirteen years OF age and re-
sided with her parents IN Bridge street.
Nuneaton, and dwindling away under
some unacconntable complaint about
three weeks ago she. as her friends i'm I
agined,. died. The corpse Was then re-
moved to another room Pie body was
rigid aud icy cold, 1t was washed and
laid ont with the usual deathly accompa-
,iiments. penny pieces being placed over
the eyes, and the coffin was ordered.
For more than So hours the supposed
corpse lay beneath the winding sheet,
when it happened that her grandfather, a
very aged man, came from bennington
to the neighborhood Of Nuueaton. On
going witch j female relative 70 see the
corpse, the old man removed one Vt The
copper coins, and although the eye re-
mained closed, he fancied he saw 4 move
mept beneathlthe lid. The woman with
him. at first fidiculed the idea but on
looking more closely, she too, observed a
movement. The medical attendant was
/ then apprisedlof the circumstance /: and,
salthoigh he 4t first treated The matter as
Ia delusion. tile .applica,ion Of an instru-
ment to that region Of the heart soon con-
WINGED him that there was life within the
apparent corpse.
The body was then removed 70 g warm
er room, AMI the existence Of life soon be-
came apparent. By degreas, animation
was restored, a loud sneeze placing the
fact Of herbeing living subject beyond
all doubt. When speech was restored.
the girl described everything that had
taken place from the time Of her sup
posed death. She knew who closed her
Eyes and placed the coppers thereon. -
She also heard the order given for her
coffin, and could describe the various re-
marks made over her asishe lay in her
death clothes.
IL AtIirst, on her restoration. she refused
all sustenance, and on some aiiment be- 4
ihg forced upon her she became fright |
d1ily excited, and. though ID. 4 state Of
extreme debility It required great force
t5l hold her. Since that period her con-
IdAct has been very strange. She enter
it,Eins wish to destroy her father and
mother and on one occasion, when they
were asleep in the same room with her
sslf. she arose from her bed in the dead Of
night, went down stairs for light, and
having first destroyed, by burning, some
nsedlework, which eimother !" set great
store ''Iupon, she set fire to 1.-THE curtains,
ard then retired to bed, from which it was
thought impossible she could have moved.
I'm fact, 50 mysterious wasthe origin Of
thp Ere. that her parents Were quite at
loss to .aceount for it, until the girl herself
confessed having been the cause. She
now lies ID such a state that she can nei-
thsr be- called alive nor dead, the former
state being only ascertaiued by q careful
examination of her pulse. We're it not
that there is no motive for deception, and
tho parents being respectable people. we
should imagine there was some ruse in
this very extraordinary affair, which is |
caasingE considerable excitement in Nun
eaton and the neighborhood.