Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-05-06
PREMATURE INTERMENTs.

The following facts, showing the numerous in.
stances in which persons have been buried alive,
are collected from medical history:
At Toulouse, France, lady having been buried
in the church of the Capuchin Friars, with a dia-
mond ring on her finger, servant entered the
vault to steal the ring; and, as the finger was
swelled, and the ring would not come of, he began
cutting the finger. On hearing loud shkiek from
the deceased the thief fell senseess. 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 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 taper at the feet. Some young
men who sat up with the corpse, in frolic, over
turned the taper. This set the straw on fire. The
deceased, whose body the flames DOW reached, ut
tered a piercing shrek. Timely assistance was
rendered, and she so well recovered that after hel
resurrection she became the mother Of several
children.
A streetporter in Paris having died at the Ho-
TEL Deu, was carried with the other dead into the
same vault. Recovering his senses toward eleven
at night, he tore open bis winding sheet, made his
way to his house, knocked at his door, which was
not opened to him without some difficulty, and took
new possession of his lodgings. The mistake Of
the sexton was thus discovered
On the 2lst of November, 1863, the Able Pre-.
vot, we'll known for his literary productions, was
taken with an apoplectic fit as he was travelling
through the forests of Chantilly. Being supposed
dead, he was carried to the house Of the mayor Of
the village and the magistrate directed post
mortem examination to be commenced. A pierc-
ing shrek uttered by the unfortunate man proved
that be was alive. He expired under the scalpel.
DR.. Deveux, surgeon of st. Come Hospital,
Paris, had maid, servant, who had been brought
three times for burial. She did not recover hel
senses the last time till they were lowering her cof:
fin into the grave. That woman, having died
anew, the body was kept six days, lest they should
have to bring her back fourth time.
A Mr.. Rosseau, of Rouen, had married lady
of fourteen, whom be left in perfect health, after
starting on short journey. After few days, he
heard that unless he returned Immediately, he
would find his wife buried. On reaching home he
saw the funeral ready. In an agony of grief he
had the coffin removed to his room and unscrewed.
He placed the body on bed, and ordered twenty
five incisions to be made on it. a. the twenty
fifth, probably deeper than the others, the deceased
exclaimed, "How severely you hurt me p Medi'
cal assistance was Immediately given. The lady
had afterwards seven children
The wife of Mr.. Duhamel, q celebrated lawyer,
of Lyons, France, having been supposed dead for
twenty.four hours, the body was placed on the ta-
bic for the purpose of preparing it for burial Her
husband strongly opposed it, not believing her
dead. To ascertain it, knowing she was very fond
of the cymbal, and the tunes which cymbal-pay-
ers sing, be called one. On hearing the instru-
ment and the voice, the deceased recovered motion
and speech. She survived her apparent death
forty years.
Andre Vesaile, physician to Charles V, and
Philip IT, after attending Spanish grandee,
thought him dead. Having obtained leave to ex-
anime the body, he had scarcely opened the chest
when he perceived that the heart palpitated. The
relatives of the deceased prosecuted him as guilty
of murder-the Inquisitor as guilty Of profanenesa
Through the intercession of the King be was sent
on pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and thus es-
capped death.
In the sitting of the Royal Academy of Medi-
cine in France, 1927, a paper was read by Mr.
Chauncey Chantournell on the danger Of hasty ln-
humations. This led to discussion in which Mr.
Desgenelle said that he had heard from Mr.. Thou
rot, who had superintended the remains Of the
cemetery and charnel-house Des Innocens, that
many skeletons were found in positions showing
that the individuals had moved in their collins
Mr.. Thourot was so much struck with the revela-
ton that he caused clause to be inserted in his
will respecting his own interment
B9" A couple of drummers beseged an old lady
in Canton, Illinois, to buy patent churn from
them. She said it was humbug, and they offer
ed to make the butter come in ten minutes. So
she filed the machine with butter milk, and they
tugged at the crank for two hours before they dis
covered the unctuous practical joke.