The Placer herald., 1873-04-12
A TWO YEARS. SLEEPER In GREAT
BRITAIN.

vile, near Great NARROW, who, it is alleged
has been in trance for nearly two years
lie thus describes the Interview: The turn
ed. down sheet disclosed the face of girl, who
looked fully the age she WIS | 'ying reported
to be-fourteen. She was living at dis.
'ance Of about four yards from the window,
and with her back to it.; but before gave
any particular attention to her, had put
back the window curtains. and there was
light enough. She had dark brown hair,
thick and strong looking. The girl face is
by no means cadaverous. There is flush
on the cheeks. which have a pinkish tint,
and there is some color in the thin lips. The
eyes are calmly closed, as though in healthy
sleep. venured to raise one of the lids.
and touch the eyes beneath-to pass the tip
of my finger across it in fact-but there was
not even the quivering of the eyeash. Her
position in the bed is a natural one. She
lies on her left side, and her cheek rests on
her open hand. "She was always used to
lie like that before she was afflicted" the
mother informed me; and whenever she was
obliged to leave the child by herself, she
placed her hand so. because she appeared TO
be much more comfortable.
took hold of the girls disengaged hand,
and found that it was quite warm and moist,
and that the finger nails were neatly trimmed
| The fingers are not in the least stItfened, and
may be closed on the hand as freely as those
of sleeping person. 1t is not skeleton
hand, neither are any Of the little girls limbs
80 emaciated as, under the exlraordnlry
circumstances alleged, might be expected. ]
measured the iorepart of the arm by span
ming it. | could barely make my thumb ana
middle finger meet This would give eigh
md half inches as the circumference Of the
arm. The child's body is very thin rs com-
pared with her limbs, but have seen chill
dren in hospital, who have ultimately over
come their disease, much thinner. There is
not much substance in her flesh, however;
it is soft and flabby, or, AS her mother ex-
pressed it, "sammy." placed my hands
on her feet, and was startled to find them
icecold. They were always cold, the mother
said-so much so that they found it neces
sary to keep hot-wat bottle always read,
to use in case other means, such rs friction,
failed to bring warmth into them. As re-
cards the chd's breathing, it is 20 feebl,
that it is almost impossible to detect it; you
cannot feel it by loding the cheek to he,
mouth, and only the fain'est Au,ier is fel.
when the hand is laid over the region of the
heart.
This is not the first instance Of trance il,
the Trilling family. The childs father lay
three weeks speechless and moionless befor,
he died; and brother of he father have
only tie woman's unsupported statement f,i
I'll l,a h.,r,, Lac, H.,
and week in he same condition before hie
demise. The mother of the eniranced girl
has married "a second husband, man named
Sadler, ,an agricultural hborer, earning twelve
slillngs week Mrs. S dler has had twelve
children, but there are only two of them al
home besides the nsensble girl, and the,
are boys, of ten and fifteen years of aye, abl,
, to earn something Up to the age of eeve,
the child, Ann Trilling, enjoyed perftc
health; then, however, she was afflicted will
Assesses in her neck. TO get cured of these
she was admitted into Reading Hospital
= where for seventeen weeks she WIS treated
Ultimately, the hospital authorities, accord
: ing to the mothers account, discharged her
d on the ground that they could do no NOR
: than they had done.
n 1t was on Tuesday that the child cam
b out Of the hospital, and there being no NOR
+ convenient method of C rrying her home, sh
d was placed in what the mother describes as
''.jolting old cart" Az soon as she reache,
d home, the child, for the first time in her life
n was seized with fits, began tot grow drcvsy
: had fresh fits frequently, and, recovering
!, was drowsier still. This continued until th
S Thursday following the Tuesday on whc
she left Readin, Hosptal-the 29ih q
March, 1871, was the date-and on til
, evening of that day she reused herself AM
began to talk 10 her mother about her pains
telling her she wished that she could die an
u I've at rest. The mothers narrative is tina
n she told the little girl to pray, and that the,
:. prayed togelher-the child rocking hersel
t to and fro, with her hands clasped, gradu
h. lily losing command over herself and grow
ing more and more convulsed her eyes rolling
o wildly and her limbs twitching. The mother
E alarmed at these symptoms, sent inmed
Il deiy to DIR. Hammond, at Stoke Church
:. hut when he arrived, to use her own expires
q sion, 'the child was fixed down." Ih It
,f to say, she had sunk into strie of insens
biliiy, in which she now remains. For sev
rral months her inannate condition was dis
rnrbed by fits sim .r to those which at frs
= .ttacked her, and during her cvnvusio,
II, she would utter moaning sounds, as thong
!, in pain: but from the 29lb of March, 1871
until the present time twenty-five month
she has never once voluntar ly move
e from any position IN which she has bee
:; laid. has never opened her eyes to loo
u about her. nor uttered any word or sound {
II made any sign that she was Conscious
living.