Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1858-12-29
TIE DEAD ALIVE,
From tho Birmingham, England. Daily Pc

| lfrom the Birmingham, England. Daily Post
The young girl whose singular restora-
tion TO life has been previously recorded
is still living. Having opportunity of in
qulrlng into to this very remarkable affair,
we are enabled to give the following pars
| ticulars:
! The girl, whose name is Amelia Kinks,
IS twelve or thirteen years ofage, and resi-
ded with her parents in Bridge street, and
dwindling away under some unaccouuta-
bic complaint, about three weeks ago, she,
as her friends imagined, died. The corpse
was then removed to another room. The
body was rigid and icy cold. 1t was wash
ed and laid out with the usual deathly ac-
compartments, penny-pieces being placed
over the eyes, and the coffin was ordered
For more than forty eight hours the
supposed corpse lay beneath the winding
sheet, when it happened that her grand-
father, very aged man. came from Lea
mington to theneighborhood of Nuneaton.
On going with female relation to see the
corpse, the old man removed one of the
copper coins, and although the eye re-
mained closed, he fancied be saw move
ment beneath the lid. The woman with
him at first ridculed theidca but on look
ing more closely, she too observed amOve-
ment. The medical attendant was appri-
sed Of the circumstance and. although
he at first treated the matter as deluslOn,
the application of an instrument to the
region of the heart soon convinced him
that there was life within the apparent
corpse. The body was thon removed to n
warmer room, and the existence of life
soon became apparent. By degrees ami.
nation was restored, loud sneeze placing
the fact Of her being n living subject be.
yond all doubt. Wncn speech was resto-
red, the girl described every thing that
had taken place from the time of her sup
posed death. She knew who had closed
her eyes and placed the coppers thereon.
She also heard the order given for her cot-
fin, 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 sustenance, and on some aliment be-
ing forced upon her she became frgItful-
ly excited and though in state Of eX.
tremo debility, it required great force to
hold her. Since that period her conduct
has been very strange. She entertains a
, wish to destroy her father and mother,and
, on one occasion, when they were asleep
in the room with herself, she rose from
her bed in the dead of the night, went
down stairs for a light, and having first
destroyed, by burning, some ncedlework
who knew her mother set great store up
on, she set fire to the curtains, and then
retired to her bed, from which it was tho't
impossible that she could have moved. In
fact so mysterious was the origin of the
fire that her parenss werequitc at q loss tC
account for it, until the girl herself con.
iessed having been the cause. She now
les in such a state that she can neither be
called alive nor dead, the former state
being only ascertained by careful exam
ination Of her pulse. Were it nos that
there is no motive for deception, and the
parents being creditable people, we should
. imagine there was some ruse i'll this very
+ extraordinary affair, which is causing con
siderable excitement in Nunoaton anC
the neghborhood.