The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-01-31
BURIED ALIVE.


Some Strange but Well Authenticated Cases--Mar.
ried Lady or New OTleanG-BrOught to Life by n
Robber-COmes to Life In Vault-A New Jersey
Minister.
1t is salways with feeling ofhoror that
we read Of grave being opened and the
finding OF the factth burial hid taken
place before death had actually claimed
its victim; and yet such cases are of more
frequent occurrence than is generally
supposed.
Some very strange cases of persons
being buried alive, and the manner in
which the facts were brought to light,
have recently been made public.
A few Of the most remarkable Of these
are now presented as showing to what
an extent this blunder has of late years
been carried on in the United States
The last
TRULY HORRIBLE CASE
Was that of lady, by name Roberta
Ainslee, of New Orleans. The lady had
been sick for some time with a malarial
fever, and was at the end of ten days
pronounced dead by her physician, as all
signs of animation seemed to be suspen. e.
ded-the body was cold, the pulse stop.
ped, and the lips were bloodless. Mr..
Ainslee was himself sick at the time, and
could not attend the funeral of his wife
but few days afterward he called the
old negress who attended her in her last
illness, and made her give him a detailed
statement Of the facts.
After listening to her story, Mr.. AIMS
lee stated that he had had strange
dream in regard to his wife, and he was
firmly of the impression that she had
been buried alive.
So strong hold did this dream take
upon his mind that as soon as he was
able he, in company with few friends
and an undertaken, went to the vault in
which the body had been placed, and
opening the large box in which the coffin
was confined, that receptacle was found
to be sprung at every joint, and the top
almost pried off. Upon opening it the
body Of Mrs. Ainslee was found to be
lying on its face, and the terrible expires,
sion the face had upon it gave evidence
ofthe struggle that must have been made
for freedom. Scarcely less mournful are
the consequences of the sad discovery
Mr.. Ainslee is now raving maniac.
BROUGHT TO LIFE BY A RoBBER.
A short three years ago Miss Addie
Carter, the daughter Of a well-to-d do
farmer in Middle Tennessee, to all app
pearances died, and was buried. The
young lady had on her hand at the time
beautiful diamond ring, the gift of her
betrothed, and it excited the cupidty oi
negro on the farm to such degree that
he made up his mind to possess it. This
he could not do without exhuming the
body, and that he did late at night. II
seems that after he had burst the coffin
open he was. on account of the swollen
condition ofthe finger, unable to pull the
ring off, so, taking out his knife, he at.
tempted to amputate the finger.
The lady, who it seems had only been
in trance,was brought to consciousness
by the cutting, and giving a scream, Sc
scared the negro that he fled.
Miss Carter then, after many painful
efforts, succeed in getting free from hel
grave and in making her way home. The
effect upon her family can be imagined
and her lover, upon hearing of the case
next day, at once made her his wife ,anc
she now presides at his table as Mrs
Collins, with nothing to remind her o.
her dreadful fate but the scar upon hel
finger.
ONE OF THE MOST PAINFUL CASES
OF ante mOrtem interment took place {
few years ago in Philadelphia. The la.
dy, young Quakeress of good family
had apparently passed from this worlc
of sin and sorrow, and was in an oper
coffin placed in vault amid the relics oi
her ancestors, Nearly six months after
ward the vault was opened to receive
another tenant, when a sight met the
eyes Of those present that will never bt
forgotten by them.
On the steps of the seat or rather incli
ned against the wall, all that was mortal
of the young lady. She had wakenec
from her trance, and being unable to fnc
her way to earth again, had sunk in help
less despair upon the steps, and then, ,wher
hunger pressed her, she had fed upon hel
own flesh, as it was discovered that hel
shoulders and arms were literally eater
to the bone.
A VERY SINGULAR CASE
Occurred to a minister some two year.
ago in Monmouth county, New Jersey
After a short illness he was thought 10 bt
dead, and preparations were made fo
his funeral. But it was not to be-tht
man was only in trance; and as the un
dertaker was making ready to screw
down the lid of the coffin, he discovered
a twiching of the supposed dead man!
eyelids, and upon proper remedies being
applied, the gentleman was restored tC
full life and vigor. He described mos
vividly his feelings at the time, as he saic
he could hear all that was going OF
around him, but could not move unit
the last moment.