The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-10-31
A CHOLERA INCIDENT.
A Woman Supposedly Dead Comes to Life,
ana Demands Her Money OF n TerEifed
nnahamA.

A Woman Supposed Dead Comes to Life,
ana Demands Her Money OF n Terrified
Husband.
From tAe &c. Louis Times, October 20.
On one of the streets running parallel with
Broadway lived a marned couple VINO mad not
travels ed together very smoothly since they had
been made one hesh. The husband, though not
a bad man, occasionally took q drop too much,
and on such occasions happiness was tne exceP,
greenbacks, which she had saved, and always
carried with her, and being the master-sprit OF
the firm, she would not allow 1t to be encroached
upon but, on the contrary, endeavored to aug
mThe wife took the cholera, and the husband,
obtaining a permit had her sent to the City
Hospital. 1t is not known that he accompanied
her thlther, thoueA he must have visited her.
One morning the nurse being out of the room
for some time he returned to the bedside OF the
poor woman and discovered her, to all appear
ance, dead. The doctor was notified and made
his observation. No pusatiOn of the heart no
breathing nothing TO dissipate the illusion and
assertion that the patient was dead was dis
covered, and the disciple OF Esculapius pro-
nounced ber-dead. She was forthwith dis
robed, placed in the rough coffin furnished by
the CITY, and conveyed TO the dead house. For
hours she lay, apparently corpse, with all the
surroundings OF death.
After the shadows of night had closed In, the
watchman took look into the room 10 see that
all was right. From the inside OF one of the
coffins peTceptible knocking was heard. Su-
perstition seized him; he slammed the door
after him, and went TO notify other parties OF
the mysterious rapping, and several accom-.
panied the man to the temporary receptacle of
the dead. When the door was opened sight
met the gaze Of the party which made the roots
of their hair tingle and caused them to feel a
weakness about the knees. The corpse" had
raised the lid of the coffin and was sitting bolt
upright in It. 'Where am ] ?" says she. The
matter was explained to her briefly. Filled
with anger illness having seemingly departed,
she let loose the f1oodgate of her passion at the
idea of being inclosed in such a contemplate
receptacle. She had $1,000 when she went to
the hospital she said, and she demanded to
know where it had gone-that amount would
have given her decent sepulture.
The attendants we're unable to explain the
whereabouts of the missing money, aud the
woman demanded to be restored to herself once
more, that she might pursue the thief who mad
robbed her, and secure to her body, if she were
to die, decent burial. The "resurrected" one
was helped out OF her narrow prison-house, and
taken to a more genial chamber. But here
another difficulty arose-her clothes had been
destroyed. Suitable apparel, however, was fur
nished, and on finding herself once more of the
flesh and blood, she insisted on starting at once
in search OF her husband, who, she thought
and perhaps, correctly-was consoling himself
with her $1,000, and the idea that some other
daughter OF Eve would console his lonely hours.
The surgeon, observing that Madam was COM
paratively well, and thinking that it might do
her more harm to retain her than permit her
departure, had the iron gate opened for her
exit. Darkness had set in ere she reached her
husbands place Of domiciiiatlon. She knocked
at the door, and her husband opened it.
With eyes fairly starting from their sockets he
gazed; words failed him; he was paralyzed with
fear at the supposed apparition. At length the
wife demanded why he had robbed her, insist
ing at the same that she was not dead, as he no
doubt hoped she was, and she had come home
he would find it harder than that to get rid OF
to believe his eyes, and he begged the ''ghost"
to leave; she might have the money but for
Gods sake to go away and not destroy him. AT
this the man, with fear and trembling, handed
was not to be driven rom her home, and with a
push she opened the door and entered the house.
She had no sooner done so than her husband
minus coat and hat, rushed out of the back door
into the yard, and the fence, and that is the
last that either his wife or his friends have seen
of him