The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-06-17

all about at.
4 The Overland Monthly has very
ingenious story Of a murderer, who,
after being hanged till life was sup
posed to be extinct, was secretly
brought to life again by the aid of
electricity. Years afterward he de-
tailed as follows to one of the wit
nesses of the execution, who CHANGED
to meet him in New Orleans, the fol-
lowing account Of his sensations on
that fearful occasion:
{ The final prayer was said, the
usual thanks rendered and greetings
given; the cord was adjusted about
my neck, I was placed upon the trap
L looked for the last time upon famil-
lar objects, the cap was adjusted over
my face, I felt an increased heat
around my heart, a fullness of the
throat, a slight weakness of the mus
cles of my limbs, then an involuntary
shrinking of the nerves and catch
ing Of the breath as l felt myself
falling, then fierce, fiery pain shot
through my whole frame, my head
seemed bursting, and my conscious
ness was gone.
How long / remained unconscious
l do not know, but when sensibility
returned, it was entirely mental. The
shock of my fall had evidently para
lyzed the nervous sensibilities and
destroyed the physical capacity Of
sense, but my mental powers were
soon resumed in wonderful manner,
for my earliest remembrance Of any
thing was the combination Of all the
colors of the prism glowing radiantly
before my eyes. Of course I did
not see them with my eyes, but Il
seemed to see them thus, as they
glowed and waved and blended, then
separated, then reformed themselves
into new combinations, and danced
and laughed with a br;lliancy far ex-
ceeding the rainbow's painting or the
prism's power.
This gorgeous scene began to fade
away, and my next transition was
into a sea of light; not the light of
the sun, or such a light as is made
by any chemical combustion, but a
light of dazzling, glowing. glorious
whiteness and purity, of which my
own mind seemed to be a part. II
now began to observe my own condi-
ton; l knew my whole body was
growing cold and rigid, the only per-
ceptible warmth being in my heart,
and l wondered how long. it would
be before that too should become cold
like the balance, and I should entire
ly die. ! even speculated upon the
severity of the pain I should have to
endure when that spot did grow cold
but / never knew. While I thus
took note of the physical condition,
my mind, with gradually increasing
power, was fully occupied. Before
me in review and then gathered around
me, were all the transactions-cr
good or evil of life; there was moth
ing forgotten nothing absent. /
saw them all, knew and recognized
them all; even minute and insignif-
can't circumstances, which at the time
had made no impression on me, were
now there, and I became fully aware
of the fact that this sentient being
which had animated my body would
not die, but would live on and on
eternally, and eternally surrounded
by and in companionship with all the
transactions of physical life.s Ever
lasting life was as conslusively shown
to me as if the spirit of him who had
been dead a thousand years had
spoken the fact. But how was / to
exist, where should ! existi / knew
/ was not part of my body; in
fact, I desired to entirely sever the
connection with it, and impatiently
waited till the warm spot of my heart
should get cold. Had I been ct lib
erty to accept or reject an offer of re-
turn to vitality, I should have reject
ed it. In vain / scanned the light
around me for revelation Of my
future condition. In vain | applied
all the brilliant powers of my puri-
fed mind to pierce the future even
to comprehend the present. | recalled