The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-05-23
VOL. XIV. NO. SO.
a Ttne Tmte as ETor.or.
u. Y. Evening POSI-

Dir. lambert, tie man WHO restores TO
life drowned people by the application Of
heat. while leaving his Office esterday
afternoon, stepped into the reporters
room Busy IS were their pencils, their
scent for news was keener.
And If a man has been hanged. Doe
tor, can be too be restored bv heat ?" ask
ed the mos, inquisiiive among them. upon
y HON the rev method for resuscitatiug
'he drowned had made deep impression.
The docior, who had never locked bctter
IN bis ilfe. answered mildly:
~ by noi?'
"Bui what if his neck is broken?" ask
ed muscular reporter.
"Hanging doesn't break a mans neck -
Did you evsr see n man hanged? de-
nanded tie youth, with an information OF
Iefson who dsvoted s. century CT so 10
sie hl-seeing of hat SORT.
Several times" answered tie Doctor
slo WY
" hat does hanged nan hang his
head over On oneside for, th,n--so
Not because his neck is dislocated
Inc Inc hgatplsS q The neck ade sl,r28pgsE 8, q :
,,-.,s,.is - sd shock hal tends 10 Kill
the man-- s sAfiools ard then the sufoca-
ton You knoT how it shocks } our brain
TO make nlisiP y hen going down stairs.
Well, here "a $50, 900 springs that your
head rests on Fem the neck 10 the feet
But when you ink man mp by The neck
the slock comes y ithout any intervention
oi springs
i've heard doetors say that r mans
neck va" broken by hanging, persisted
lhe muscular nan
so have l-5oung doctors But sur
gical science does not report a single
case
oh, well, new you're On science. I'll
I give in and tie modest muscular report
er viildfew sIep aud filed his pipe.
Ills tortc is faek straight.
Did Gu eYir see n hanged man come
10 life again, tcclcr2' asked 4 doubling
TLomgs
/ Yes. have
All ears BEN percepfibiy toward the
speaker, aud there v rs silence as il death.
A young fellow, began the Doctor,
"was cou demne9 TO be executed. During
+ his Incarceration he promised his body to
/ the prison physician in return for the 10
bacco he had used When he was dead
/ the physician determined to try an elec-
/ tiical machine on him, but never having
/ hnnl,ed Que, called NE in to he . him. /
went. We applied electricity to various
B JarIs Of the t0dy, and wherever it was
applied the body moved. At length we
7 sent a cuirentalopg the -pine from end
10 end The fellow was lying on a long
! tablo-as long as--well tlookiug around
/ the room rather louaer than any you ve
/ here. He tat up; opened his eyes slowly;
! shut lhe u; iAeb opened them wide. The
! physician who owned the body, and two
{ ycuuy men who were helping him, start
{ ed afriahted for ihe door
T s.lgsH Z man gorlo iYo,gnl all oh r''
+ inquired the Thomas reporter, earnestly.
He didn't lie down again. In half an
Z hour he poke-asked where he was and
v hat We wetedoinR 10 i.gu. T. d couple
of hours he vas on his way out Of the
villa as fast as bis legs could carry him.
Did they each him again q
NO The Inhabitants to this day think
. that lie was dissccled.'
Ought he 10 have been hanged if he
/ had been cauRn2'
well, there's difference Of opinion
+ about that. Certainly the ply s'ciar
/ owned hiio lad bought aud paid for him
~ ould il have been nfonx. DOctor, ioI
the physician to kill him when lie sa"
him coming 10 life and rObbiug him OF his
/ property p
Tie rel cricr who asked him the qnes-
tiou IS one Of the most blood,birs y per-
sons IN this city. The Doctor wisely re-
piled by saying that the answer belonged
TO the department OF morals, OF hIch lie
was not professor.