Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1859-02-26
From tho Birmingham, England Post.
The live corpse of q Young Girl restored
TO life FoIty.eight hours after dcath..
want she saw and heard chow she nets.

want she saw and heard..how she acts.
This young girl whose singular res
toration to life has been previously re-
corded is still living. Having had an
opportunity Of inquiring into this very
remarkable affair we are enabled to
give the following particulars:
The girl, whose name is Amelia
Kinks, ia IL or Is years Of age, and re-
sided with her parents in Bridga st.,
Nuneaton, and dwindling away under
some unaccountab!e 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
Accomplishments, penny pieces being
placed over the eyes, and the coffin
was ordered. li
For more then 4S hours the sup
posed corpse lay beneath the winding
sheet, when it happened that her
grandfather, a very aged man. came
from bennington TO the neighborhood
of Nuneaten. On going with q female
relative to see the corpse the old man
removed one Of the copper coins, and
although the eye remained closed he
tancled he saw q movement beneath
the lid. Aa at .ua r,
The woman with him at first ridi.
culed the idea, but on looking more
closely she too observed movement.
The medical attendant was then ap.
prissd of the circumstance and al.
though he first treated the matter 8.
a delusion, the application of an iustru
ment to the region of the heart soor
convinced him that there AZ life with
in the apparent oorse. The body va.
then removed to a warmer room, anG
the existence of life soon became ap
parent. BY degrees animation WI.
restored, loud sneeze placing thu
tact OF her being living subject be
yond all doubt. When speech was re-
stored 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
IcoPpers thereon. She also heard the
order given for her coffin, and could
describe the various remarks made
over her as sho lay in her death-clothes
At first on her restoration, she re
fused all sustenance, and on some ali
ment being forced upon her, she be
came frightfn|ly excited, and, though
in state Of extreme debility, it reqair
ed great force to hold her. Since tina,
period her conduct has been very
strange. She entertains a wish to de-
stroy her father and mother, and on
one occasion when they were asleep ir
the same room with herself, she arose
from her bed in the dead OF night
went down stairs for light, and hav.
ing first destroyed, by burning some
needlework, which she knew her moth.
er "set 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, Sc
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 snch a state that she can
neither be called alive or dead, the
former state being only ascertained by
a careful examination Of her pulse
Were it not that there is no motive for
deception, and the parents being cred
table people, we should imagine there
was some ruse in this very extraordi.
nary affair, which is causing consider.
able excitement in Nuneaton and the
neighbOrhood. r8-