Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-05-13
Premature Interments.

The following facts, showini
the numerous instances In which
persons have been buried alive
are collected from medical history
At Toulouse, France, a lady
having been buried in the churcI
of the CaPuchin Friars, with ;
diamond ring on her finger, a ser
want entered vault to steal the
ring and, as the finger was swelleC
and the ring would not come off
he began cutting the finger. On
hearing a loud shrek from the
deceased, the thief fell senseless
| At the time of morning prayers
the monks having heard some
groans, found the lady alive and
the servant dead. Thus death
had his prey; there was but a
change of victims.
At the close of the last century
woman in Paris was. thought to
be dead, and the body was put on
some straw with a taper at the
feet. Some young men who sat
up with the corpse, in a frolic
overturned the taper. This set
the straw on fire. The deceased,
whose body the flames now reached
uttered piercing shrek. Time
ly assistance was rendered, and
she so well recovered that after
her resurrection she became the
mother of several children.
A street-pointer in Paris, hav-
ing died at the Hotel-Dieu, was
carried with the other dead into
the same grave. Recovering his
senses toward eleven at night, he
tore open his winding-sheet, made
his way to his house, knocked at
his door, which was not opened
to him without some difficulty,
and took possession of bis lodgings.
The mistake Of the sexton was
thus discovered.
On the 21st of November, 1853,
the Able Prevot, well known for
his literary productions, was Ia
ken with an apoplectie fit as he
was travelling through the forests
of ChantilIy. Being supposed |
dead, he was carried to the house
of the Mayor of the village, and
the magistrate directed a post
mortem examination to be com
A piercing shrek ut
tered by the unfortunate man
proved that he was alive. He
expired under the scalpel.
Dr. Deveux, a surgeon of the !
St. Come Hospital, had a maid, a
who had been three times
brought 20 burial. She did not
recover her senses the last time ,
till they were lowering her coffin
nto the grave. That woman !
having died anew, the body was .
Kept six days, lest they should
have to bring her back a fourth :
ime. /
A Mr.. Rousseau, of Rouen, /.
lad married a lady of fourteen, ,
whom he left in perfect health, af- {
er starting on a short Journey |
After a few days, he heard that I
lnless he returned Immediately, I
le would find his wife buried
IN reaching home, he saw the /
uneral ready. In an agony Of
,rief he had the coffin removed to
lis room and unscrewed. He !
,laced the body on the bed, and J
rdered twenty-five incisions to be t
made on it. At the twenty-sixth,
deeper than the others, a
he deceased exclaimed, "How t
severely you hurt me-" Medi- a
al assistance was Immediately /
iven. The lady had afterwards a
eventeen children. 7
The wife Of Mr.. Duhamel, a S
lawyer of Lyons,
france, having been supposed
cad twenty-four hours, the body /
7as placed on the table for the 4
urpose of preparing it for burial. Iii
Ter husband strongly opposed it, n
OF believing her dead. TO ascer- r
ain it, knowing she was veryIc c
md Of the cymbal, and the tunes b
Ihich cymbai-players sing, he e
allied one. 0nhearing the instru- S
lent and the voice, the deceased
covered motion and speech
he survived her apparent death a
orty years. y
Andrew Vesaile, physician tot il
,harIes Y. and Philip IL. afteri Il