The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-05-29
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A TRUE TALE OF HORROR.
A Talk with 0 Doctor.

Talk with Doctor.
The New York Evening Post says: DR.. Lambert
the mau who restores drowned people to life by
the application Of heat stepped into the reporters
room. Busy as were their pencils their scent fol
news was keener.
"And If man has been hanged, doctor, can ho
too, be restored by heat2" .l
The doctor, who had never locked better In his
life, answered MILDLY:
"Why nOt2"
But what If his neck is broken r. asked the
muscular reporter.
Hanging doesn't break mans neck"
ibid you ever see man hangedP' demanded
the youth, with the intonstiou Of person who
had devoted century or more to sightseeing Of
that sort
Several times" answered the man slowly.
what does a hanged man hang his head over
on one side then-sO2 'II
mot because his neck is dislocated. The liga-
lures Of the neck are stronger than any rope
Hanging never yet broke q heck. It's the shock
that tends to kill the mRn-the shock and, then
sufOcatiOn. Youknow how II shocks your brain
to make misstep when goiEg down stairs. Well
there are fifty thousand springs that your head
rests on from the neck to the feet. But when you
jerk man up by the neck the shock comes with.
out any Intervention Of springs"
1--we heard doctors say that mans neck was
broken by hanging" persisted the muscular man.
$50 have I-young doctors But surgical sci.
ence does not report such case"
20, we'll, now on your science, I'll give In, /" and
the modest muscular reporter withdrew a step
and filled his pipe His forte is facts straight.
did you ever see hanged MAJ come to life.
doctor 7" asked doubling Thomas.
Eyes, i havep is
All ears bent perceptibly toward the speaker,
and there was silence as In death.
"A young fellow" began the doctor, was con.
demned to be executed During his incarceration
he promised his body to the prison physician in
return FOR the tobacco that he used. When he
was dead the physician determined to try an cleo.
trical machine on him, but never having handled
one, called me in to help him, went, We ap-
piled electricity TO various parts Of the body and
wherever 1t was applied the body moved. At
length we sent current along the spine from
end to end. The fellow was lying on q long "a
ble-as long as-well Cooking around the room)
rather longer than any you've got here. He sat
up, opened his eyes slowly shut them then
opened them wide. The physician. who owned
the body, and two young men who were helping
him, started affrighted for the door"
Ibid the man come round all right ?" inquired
the Thomas reporter, earnestly. l7 ~"
He didn't lie down again, In half an hour he
spoke-asked where he was and what we were
doing with him. In couple Of hours be was on
his way out Of the villa as fast as his legs could
carry him" nd Hi'
Ibid they catch him again Z"
mo. The inhabitants to this day think he was
dissected." r,M fea.r fsta ass's
"ought he to have been hanged IL he had been
caught2" h ,s
"Well, there's g difference Of opinion about
that. Certainly the physician loWned him-had
bought and paid for him" d
wouldn't 1t have been wrong, doctor, for the
physician to kill him, when he saw him coming
to life and rObbing him Of his property I" r
The reporter who asked the question 10 one Of
the most bloodthirsty persona In this city. The
doctor wisely replied BY saying that the answer
belonged TO the department OF moras, In which
be was not professor.