Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1859-02-08
A SINGULAR CASE.

The young girl whose singular restora-
ton to life has previously been recorded,
is still living. Having had an opportuni-
ty OF lnquiring into this very narka ble
affair. we are enabled to give the follow
ing particulars:
The girl, whose name is Amelia Kinks,
Is II or I3 years of age, and resides with
her parents IN Bridge street Nunea .on, ,
and, dwlndlng away under some unac-
countable complaint about three weeks
ago, she as her friends imagined, died
The corpse was rigid and icy cold 1t
was whashed and laid out with the usually
deathly Accomplishments, penny pieces
being placed over the eyes, and the coz
| fin ordered.
For more than As hours the supposed
corpse lay beneath the winding sheet,
when it happened that her grandfather, a
very good man, came from Leaning ION
to the neighborhood of Numeaton. On
going with a female relation to see the
corpse, the old man removed one of the
copper coins, and although the eye re-
manned closed he fancied he saw move
ment beneath the lid.
The woman with him at first ridiculed
the idea, but on looking more closely she
too observed a movement. The medical
attendant was then apprlsed of the circum-
stance and although he at first treated
the matter as delusion, the application
of an instrument TO the heart, soon con-
vinced him that there was life In the ap-
parent corpse. The body was then re-
moved to a warmer room, and the exist
ence of life soon became apparent. BY
degrees animation was restored, a loud
sneeze placing the fact of her being a
living subject beyond a doubt. When
speech was restored the girl described
every thing that had taken place from the
time OF her supposed death. She knew
who had closed her eyes and placed the
| coppers thereon. She also heard the or
| der given for her coffin, and could de-
scribe the various remarks made over her
as she lay in her death clothes.
At first on her restora.io she refused
all sustenance, and on some al ment being
| forced upon her, she became frighfuliy
excited, and though In a state of debility,
it required great force to hold her. Since
that period her conduct has been very
strange. She entertains wish to DESTROY
/ her father and mother, and on one ocCa-
son 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 curtains, and then re-
tired 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 a loss
to account for 1t, until the girl herself con-
fessed having been the cause. She now
| lies in such state that she can neither
| be called alive nor dead, the former state
| being ascertained by careful examina-
ton of her pulse. Were it not that there
is no motive for deception and the parents
being creditable people, we should mag
Inc there was some ruse IN this very eX-
traordnary affair, which is causing con-
| siddrabie excitement il Nuneaton and the
neighborhood--[ Birmingham { Eng.
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