The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-12-11
The Icy Corpse of a Young Girl Ne
stored to aife Forty.Eighl Hours
after Deash--Whai She Saw and
Ikeard--Hn W She Acts.

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stored to aifo forty.EighI n ours
after Deash--Whai She Saw and
neard-- III ow She Acts.
From the Birmingham (England) Post.l
The young girl whose singular restoration
to life has been previously recorded ia still
living. Having had an opportunity Of inqui-
ring into this very remarkable affair, we are
enabled to give the following particulars -
The girl, whose name is Amelia Kinks, 10 IL
or Is years OF age, and resides with her pa
rents in Bridge street, Nuneaton, and, dwind-
ling away under some anaccountabe CON-
plant, about three weeks ago, she, as her
friends imagined, died. The corpse was rig
id and icy cold. 1t was washed and laid out
with the usual deathly Accomplishments, pen.
ny pieces being placed over the eyes, and the
coffin was ordered.
For more than 48 hours the supposed
corpse lay beneath the winding sheet, when
1t happened that her grandfather, a very good
man, came from bennington to the neigh
borhood of Nuneaton. On going with fe-
male relation to see the corpse, the old man
removed one OF the copper coins, and al
though the eve remained closed he fancied he
saw movement beneath the lid.
The woman with him at first ridiculed the
idea, but on looking more closely she too OBJ
served movement. The medical attendant
was then apprised of the circumstance and
although he at first treated the matter as a
deusion, the application Of an instrument to
the region OF the heart, soon convinced him
that there was life in the apparent Corpse
The body was then removed TO a warmer
room, and the existence OF life soon became
apparent. By degrees animation was re-
stored, loud sneeze placing the fact of her
being living subject beyond all doubt
When speech was restored the girl described
everything that had taken place from the
time Of her supposed death. She knew who
had closed her eyes and placed the ooppors
thereon. She also heard the order given for
her coffin, and could describe the various re.
marks made over her as she lay in her death
clothes.
At first on her restoration, she refused all
sustenanee, and on some aliment being forced
upon her, she became frightfully excited,
and, though in II state OF extreme debility, II
required great force to hold her. Since that
period her conduct has been very strange
She entertains q wish to destroy her father
and mother, and on one occasion when they
were asleep Ia the same room with herself,
she arose from her bed in the dead of the
night, went down stairs for light, and hav.
ing first destroyed, BY burning, some needle
work, which she knew her mother ssset great
store" upon, she set fire to the curtains, and
then retired to bed, from which it was thought
impossible she could have moved. In fact,
so mysterious was the origin Of the FIRE that
her parents were quite at 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 nor dead,
the former state being only ascertainsd BY :
careful examination OF her pulse. Were it
not that there 10 no motive for deception, aud
the parents being creditable people, we should
imagine there was some ruse in this very ex-
traordinary affair, which is causing consider
able excitement in Nuneaton and the neigh
borkood.