The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-07-06
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The Crown Point Register lake County
Ind.) publishes the following rather huge
story, - another phase of spiritualism.'
The writer seems to have compounded Poe,
IN. Valdemar," and 'The FAN Of the House
Of Usher, and manufactured the af6dayits
I'VE have received the following letter
from DR.. John Morton, n gentleman Of We
racity and high professional standing, for.
merly from Cleveland, Ohio, and an old
schoolmate Of ours We think its perusal
will convince our readers Of the entire truth
Of oil that 10 said about Modern Spiritual.
ism -
GRAND TRAvERsE, Mich, May 25, '5S.
EDS REGISTER -
/ send you the following account Of a most
extraordinary event or transaction or wha,
You wlH-becanse, in my opinion, it ought
not to be suppressed; but, on the contrary.
thoroughly investigated. In the midst of the
excitement here, such thing as calm and
unbiased examination Is altogether out of the
question; nor would il be safe to attempt it,
inasmuch as the determination Of the people
10 strongly to ''hush up" As myself am
one Of the chief characters concerned in the
affair. ! dare not attempt il possessed the
ability, to Determine the character Of what /
am about to relate.
| left Cleveland to establish myself here,
a. you will remember, some time in July last
"a young and inexperienced physician. AL
most the first patient | was called to visit
was Mrs. Hayden-a woman Of thirty five
years OF age, strong constitution, and a
well balanced mind, apparently and zap.
parently) with little or no imagination. She
was, however, ''spiritualist," with the rep
utation OF being superior medium" Her
usual physician, DIR. J. n. Williams, was alb
confidence her application to me. found
her laboring under severe attack Of typhus
fever, which threatened to prove fatal. Hav.
ing prescribed for her, left, promising to
send DIR. w. as soon as he returned This
was On Saturday morning. At night DIR. W.
took the patient off my hands, and did not
see her again until Friday evening ofthe en-
suing week. then fonnd her dying, and
remained with her until her deceasc, which
took place precisely at midnight She was
or appeared to be, rational during the whole
OF my visit though was informed that she
had been delirious the greater part of the
week. There was nothing remarkable about
her symptoms; | should say the disease had
taken its natural course.
AT the time Of her decease there were in
the room, beside myself, her husband,
Mrs. Green, her sister, and Mrs.
Miles, "a neighbor) Her husband, whom
particularly noticed, was very thin and weak
then suffering from quick consumption, al
ready beyond recovery. He bore the char
acter of n clear minded, very firm, illiterate
but courteous man, and a most strenuous I'M
believer in spiritualism.
There had been some subdued converse
tion-such as is natural in such scenes-the
patient taking no part in it, except to signify,
in faint and gradually diminishing voice,
her wants, until about an hour before her
death, when sudden and indescribable
change came over her features, voice and
whole appearaace-a change which her hus
band noticed by saying with, as thought
wholly unwarranted bitterness,
There so those cursed spirits again.
The patient hereupon Enclosed her eyes
and fixing a look of unutterable emotion on
her husband-a look so direct, searching
and unwayering that was not little start
led by it. Mr.. Hayden met it with some
thing like an unhappy defiance, and finally
asked OF his wife what she wanted She i'm
mediately replied in voice ofperfect health,
"fou know"
was literally astonished at the words
and the voice in which they were uttered |
had often read and heard of return of vol
ume and power ofvoice just preceding disso-
luton; but the voice of the patient had none
Of the natural intonation of such-it was, as
l have said perfectly healthy In few mo-
ments she continued in the same voice and
with her eyes still fixed upon her husband:
William, in your secret SOUL you do be-
lieve -
Wife was the imploring reply, that is
the devil which has stood between us and
Heaven, for 50 many months. We are both
at the very verge of the grave; ami, in Gods
name, let him be buried frstt'
Apparently without hearing or needing
him, she repeated her words
~ on dare not dis6eiiere"
Il do, he replied, excited by her manner,
while you are dying-nay if you were
DEAD, and should speak to me, dare not be-
here
"Then,' she said, IL will speak to you
when am DEAD | will come to YOU at
your latest moment; and, with voice from
the grave, will warn you of your time to
follow me =
But shall not believe spirit
II Will come In the BODY, and SPEAK to YOU
--REMEMBER! =
She then closed her eyes, and straishtway
sank into her former state.
La few moments-as soon as we had
somewhat recovered from the shock of this
most extraordinary scene--her two children
were brought into the room to receive her
dying blessing. She partially reused her
self, aad placing hand on the head of each,
she put up faint prayer to the throne Of
grace-faint in voice, indeed, but PRAYER
in which all the strength of her great unpol.
ished soul, heart and mind were exerted to
its utmost, dying limit-such a PRAYER as a
sereph might attempt, but none but dying
wife and mother could accomplish. From
that moment her breathing grew rapidly
weaker and more difficult and at twelve O.
clock she expired, apparently without
struggle.
closed her eyes, Strengthened and CON-
posed her limbs, and was about to leave the
mouse, WIcH MIS-. uIteD requested me TO
send over two young ladies from my board
ing house, to watch with the dead. All this
occupied some ten minutes
Suddenly Mrs. Miles screamed and Mr.
Hayden started up from the bedside where
he had been sitting. The supposed corpse
was sitting erect il the bed, and struggling
to speak! Her eyes were still closed and,
save her open mouth and quivering tongue,
there were all the looks of death in her face
With great heaye of the chest, at last the
single word came forth:
"REMEMBER =
Her jaw fell back to its place, and she
again lay down as before. now examined
her minutely. That she was dead there
could be no possible shadow of doubt and SO
l left the house.
On the following day, DR. Williams made
a careful and minute post mortem examina-
ton q the body. ! was prevented, by BUSH
ness; from attending; but was and am in
formed, by the Doctor, that he found the
brain but very slightly afocted-an unusual
fact in persons dying of typhus fever-but
that her lungs were torn and rent extensive
~, as if by sudden, single and powerful
effort. and sufused, partially. with coagulated