Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1860-09-05
RUMORED RESUSClTATLON OF
HICKS THE PIRATE.

The New York Leader Of Saturday pub.
fishes the following article" which is lin.
portant iftrue,'' and any way is calculated
10, make q. ssensation:tisg 10 s;,aa!, r.l*I
There is now no further use in conceal
ing that Albert Nv. Hicks, who was dstensi-
bly, executed for piracy on Bedloe's Island,
12 the 18th oflast July, is still living, though
in . dangerous ss:.:stc. but likely to recove,
the full use Of his faculties and limbs. . The
sight Of his left eye is gone, and his left arm
and left leg continnes paralyzed; but apart
from these injuries he: would appear to have
suffered nothing, and his residence at his
sisters house in Poughkeepsie has proved
every way beneficial.
:, 1t will be remembered that much COM
ment was excited by the utterly fearless
manner in which Hicks conducted himself
previous to his execution. lie laughed at
the idea Of the gallows, and was only
anxious as he repeatedly said, to have
'''things conducted according to- agfcem ent. y
In this agreement. il is now believed that. a
prominent federal officer had part; and it's
on record, in the daily papers, that lie was
present At the execution wearing his deputy
marshal's badge, although no longer in the
MaEs!n!AlS t9Ige.o iituo2 evil t0sf ssof 4sss
It is also remarked at the time that Hicks
was only pulled up aI'distance of two two, and .
half fset=-utterly insufficient TO break his
neck; and that he wasi only allowed tore
main thirteen minutes thanging.d lie was
then cut down and pronounced dead, after
which his body wasfimmedi ately handed over
TO the care Of Doctors J.. Z. Bull and Henry
.: D'Reily, of Brooklyn; !These, gentlemen
are !respcc nsible fol. his resursectipn and the
electro chemical bath, invented BY Professor
Nergues, was the immediate instrument =
.;s The body o! the pirate was wrappedain
warm blankets and removed ct oncesto. the
house of DR.; O'Iially j, in, ,BrookIyn;t, where
doctors 9 REILLY and Mclllery, 'ofthis zc;ty,
TO be. wholy quiet, but sitter various expert
ments the medical men, came to, the concsu-
sion that it was, only q, case of. suspended
animation. The body was therefore at once
placed in the 81 electro chemical bath, and
while: subjected to the.charges 1.-THE battery,
and the action Of the acids; Dr.. Crane COM
Emenceda series ofexperimentss for the infla..
ton Of the lungs. II 89isaiH esia s. siiaN
Iilt In the course Of about two hours these
were partially Successful, the pirate beginning
70 give. faint indications of Preparations; and
these cheering signs animated the, medical
men ia attendance to 1edoubled texertiops.-
A cautery was applied to,'hss righe foot, and
received lanwer. in an Immediate CONTRACTION
Of the. leg;the same experiment was repeat-
cd under the right ear, taking care not 10 in
juge the jugular. Yeiii, and thesheads It once
conpepsedtolEOlt mi tmannerindicating &C.
ute feeling .teift4d ela.I 1asr notaaoa.I
ii. Very slowly, but seadily Albert Nv.
Hicks Eegained concipusuess,,, though for
several days unable to speak, his threat
being TOO seyerelylinjnrc.l. II wasthen found
that his lels eye-.-tha side on which the moose
had been-had lost all power aof sight and
that his left arm and his LEFT leg were utter
w paralysed. In this conditions he,was con
yeyeds 70 Resghkeepsie, whered'his sister,
Mrs: Gavan. lives; and under her reof l,s is
now sheltered, though the friends Of the fam
lily &c not desire to give toomuche publicity
70 4 we slace. j: n Ys..l $50 ITO d a19df
rDr; 3carnoehan, though pxesentsd ofrom per-
s9nal attendance by thdisevere nndisposftidn
Which. as!prostrated him.. took4grsat intee.
estqn the case5 apd Was On sadtiseiniu allits
s!!aasss.. bauo5a Yas adj sssisaig 70 s. s55sea:
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