The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-02-08
BURIED ALIVE.

BC kIED ALIVE.
Some Strange but WeII-AuthenIieated ed
Cases-The Discovery that IA Lady
kad Been Buried Alive, Drives
her Husband TO Insanity.
1t is always with a feeling of horror
that we read of grave being opened
and the finding of the fact that q burial
had taken place before death had actu-
ally claimed its victim; and yet such
cases sre of more frequent occurrence
than is generally supposed. Some very
strange cases of perzons being buried
alive, and the manner in which the facts
were brought to light, have recently
been made public. \ few Of the most
remarkable of these are now presented
as showing TO what an extent this
blunder has Of late been carried on IN the
United States The last
TRULY HORRIBLE CASE
was that of a lady, by name Mrs.
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 ell signs of animation seemed to be
suspended-the body was cold, the pulse
stopped, and the lips were bIoodIess. Mr.
Ainslee was himself sick at the time,
and could not attend the funeral Of his
wife but n few days a'terward he called
the old negress who had attended her in
her last illness, and made her give him a
detailed statement of the facts After
listening to her story, Mr.. Ainslee stated
that ne had a strange dream in regard to
his wife, and he was firmly of the i'm
preston 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 a few friends
and an undertaken, went 10 the vault in
which the body mad been placed, and
opening the large box in which the coffin
was confined, that receptacle was found
to be sprung st every joint, and the top
almost pried of. Upon opening it, the
body of Mrs. Ainslee was found 10 be
lying on its face, and the terrible pres
sion the face had upon it gave evidence
of the struggle that must have been
made for freedom. Scarcely less mourn
ful are the consequences of the sad dis
covtry--Mr. Ainslee is now a raving
maniac.
BROUGHT TO LIFE BY 4 RoBBER.
A short three years ago Miss Addie
Carter, the daughter OF a well-to-do
farmer in Middle Tennessee, to all ap
pearances. died, and was buried. The
young lady had on her hand at the time
3 beautiful diamond ring, the gift of her
betrothed. and it excited the capacity
Of negro on the farm to such a 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. 1t seems that after ne had burst
the caffin open he was, on account of the
swollen condition of the finger, unable
to pull the ring of, 50, taking out his
knife, he attempted TO amputate the
finger. The lady, who it seems had only
been in a trance, was brought to con-
sciousness by the cutting, and, giving
scream, so scared the negro that he fed.
Miss Carter then, after many painful
efforts, succeeded in getting free from
her grave and in making her way home.
The effect upon her family can be i'm
agiued, and her lover, upon hearing of
the case next day, at once made her his
wife, and she now presides at his table as
Mrs. Collins, with nothing to remind her
of her dreadful fate but the scar upon
her finger.
ONE OF THE MOST PAINFUL CASES
of Gnte-mOrtens interment took place
few years age in Philadelphia. The lady,
a young Quakeress of good family, had
passed from this world of sin
and sorrow, and wss in an open coffin
placed in vault amid the relics of her
Nearly six months aCterward
the vault was opened to receive another
tenant, when a sight met the eyes of
those present that will never be forgotten
by them On the steps of the vault sat,
or rather inclined against the wall. all
that was mortal of the young lady. She
had awakened from her trance, and being
unable TO find her way to earth again,
had sunk in helpless despair upon the
steps, and then, when hunger pressed
her, she had fed upon her own flesh, as
it was discovered that her shoulders and
arm were literally eaten to the bones.
VERY SINGULAR CASE
to minister some two year
ago in Mammouth county, New Jersey.
After short illness he was thought to
be dead, and preparations were made for
his funeral But it was not to be-the
man was only in trance; and as the un-
dertaker was making ready to screw
down the lid of the coffin, he discovered
a twitching of the supposed dead mans
eyelids, and, upon proper remedies being
applied, the gentleman was restored to
full life and vigor. He described most
wildly his feelings at the time, as he said
that he could hear all that was going on
around him. but could not move until
the last moment.
Two cases came 10 US recently from
Europe of most heart rending burlals
before death, and which prove most con-
clusively that doctors are not always the
best Judges OF suspended animation.
Boston has the only msnniactory o
gongs and cymbals in the United States
The production Is about three hundred
and fifty gongs and five hundred and
fifty pair of cymbals per year.