The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1858-12-30
n O. Y " XIV
From the Birmingham England Post.
Restored TO Fife Forty. Eight Hour
after Death,


The young girl whose singular restoration 10
life has seen previously recorded is still living.
Having had an opportunity OF inquiring into
this very remarkable affair. We are enabled 20
give the following particulars;
The girl, whose name is Amelia Kinks, 10
twelve or thirteen years of age, and resides with
her parents in Bridge street, Nuneaton, and
dwlnuling away under some unacc ountable
complaint about three weeks ago, she, as her
friends imagined. died. The corpse was then
removed TO another room. The body was rigid
aud Icy cold. 1t was washed and laid out with
Tue usual deathly accompaniment, penny pieces
Being placed over the eyes, and the coffin was
ordered
For more than forty-cight hours the supposed
corps, lay beneath the winding sheet when it
happened that her grandfather, a very aged man,
came from bennington to the neghbodood Of
Nuneaton, On gong with female relation TO
see the corpse the old man removed one of tho
copper coins, and although they remained closed
ho taneied he saw movement beneath the lid.
Tho woman with him at first ridiculed tho
idea, but on looking more closely she too OBJ
served movement. The medical attendant was
then nppriSed of the circumstance; and, al
though he at first treated the matter as delu-
sion, the application ot an instrument TO the
region OF tho heart soon convinced him that
there was life within the apparent corpse. The
body was then removed 10 u warmer room. and
The existence OF life soon became apparent.--
By degrees animation was restored. loud
sneeze placing the fact of her being a living
subject beyond all doubt. When speech was
restored the girl described everything tha, had
taken place from the tine OF her supposed death.
She knew who had closed her ewes and placed
the coppers thereon. Sle also heard the order
given for her coffin, aud could describe the vari-
Gus remarks made over her as she lay in her death.
clothes.
At first, on her restoraton she refused all
sustsnance, and on some aliment being forced
upon her she became frightf lly excited, aud,
though in state OF extreme debility, il required
great force TO hold her Since that period her
conduct has been very strange. She entertains
| wish TO destroy her father and mo her and OH
ono occasion, when they were asleep in the
! same room with herself, she arose from her bed
in the dead OF the night, went down stairs for a
light, and having first destroyed, by burning,
| some needlework, which she knew her mother
set great store upon, she set fire to the cIr-
tainS and then retired 20 b'd, from which it was
| thought impossible she could have moved. In
| Iact, SO mysterious was the origin OF the fire
that her parents were qnic at y loss to account
for it, until the girl herself confessed having
been the cause. She now lies in such state
that she can neither be called alive or dead the
former state being only asceraned by a careful
there is no motive Tor deception, and the pa
rents being credtable people, we should imagine
there was some ruse in this very extraordinary
affair, which is causing considerable excitemcnt
III Nuncaton and the neighborhood.