Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-08-24
A STRANGE CASE.
Lffe.Like Appearance OF Hamilton
Comfy. o.. COrpse-A Dead Girl
BIushing Like . PeOny.

Flushing Like PeOny.
CINCINNATI, August pa supposed case
of suspended animation has created q tire.
mepdous sensation in the little town Of
Sharon. this county, the subject being Miss
Alice Linkmeyer, lady OF twenty-five or
twenty-six years OF age. ON "Wednesday
| last DIR. Smizcr, of Sharon, was called IN at
Tend Miss Alice, who was found to be ap.
| parently slightly sick. The doctor did not
consider from the symptoms that there was
anything serious in the case. The tenn
| perature Of her body was about 1907.
Within the next twenty.four hours
there was a slight variation, it rising to l0l
degrees and recedng TO 100 The pulse
| was not over -. On Thurday morning Miss
Alice dressed herself and proposed TO go
down t. breakfast but was prevailed upon
TO retire t. her bed This she did, laugh
ing and Joking with those around her. On
Friday morning DR.. Smizcr, having BUSINESS
in Cincinnati and not considering the case
Of the young lady at all serious, repaired
To Vine street Hill, where he remained
until in the afternoon. In the meantime,
at about $50 O'Clock, 4. NJ, Miss
Alice was suddenly seized with fit OF
vomiting and purging. This continued un-
I'll she became Frustrated. and she under
went a collapse, dying at noon. Miss Smi-
zer is also q physician, and, ia the absence
of her brother, she was called in, as was also
DR.. Streetor who resides next door 10 Link.
meyer's Every effort was made TO
counteract the prostration Stimulants
were freely administered, both by
byperdermic in Election and internally, but
nothing availed. The funeral was set for
Sunday, notwithstanding the appearance OF
the corpse led many who saw it 10 declare
the girl was not dead. Her cheeks, 30 rosy
al =; hafnrn Hnatb
She Looked as though she were peacefully
sleeping. So impressed was the father with
this fact that he cautioned the undertaken
TO take particular care not To allow the cooler
TO touch the corpse. and this was observed.
There was quite space left between the
cooler and the body. The father
determined that 20 long As the vaguest
shadow of a doubt existed he would be
guided BY that doubt. Signs OF returning
life were anxiously watched for, but there
seemed to be no change, and on Sunday
funeral. AS she lay in her coffin, decorated
with a profusion Of flowers, she
had the appearance Of one playing
part in tragedy, and il was
hard to imagine that she was dead.
her cheeks blazing redder than q
peony. Had there been but slight tinge
Of mink il might not have been noticed, but
her cheeks were rs crimson rs the purest
blood, and the face of the corpse resembled
a thousandfold more that Of young girl
listening to the first declaration OF love
from an admired sutton than the face OF
dead person. However, the funeral
took place, but instead Of plac-
ing the coffin in the grave
which had been prepared. the father had
his daughter deposited in vault, the lid oil
the casket removed, and men were employ.
ed to watch for some sign OF returning life.
All through the night Of Sunday the lone
" vigil was kept. and on Monday numbers
OF persons visited the vault TO look at the
corr sc and the bushes that were ~ lifelikc
on its cheeks. As the day wore on the idea
obtained that Alice Linkmeyer was not
dead, and as the report tray,
eled from mouth TO mouth
il increased in its vividness: Pres
emily one George Miller posted OF to
Sharon and requested Dir. Linkmyer to re.
pair to the cemetery. The distracted
father understood that test had revealed
the fact that his daughter was not dead but
only in a trance. Elated beyond express
sion and buoyed by the brightest hopes,
he hurried to the vault.
There he found Alice still in her coffin,
but looking so life-like that he could hard
~ realize that she was dead. Finally Q
hCaTse was procured anu TIC UVuS io"''eN
10 her fathers house, where over
two hundred people had collected,
and an attempt was made 70
restore life. The limbs were vigorously
rubbed and batbed in spirits, the chest was
pressed in the hope Of causing recur-
renee OF respiration, galvanic test was
made, arteries were opened, mustard plas-
tiers we're applied, and every thing. that
could be thought Of was done, but the ef.
forts were futile. twas the opinion Of the
family that the corpse looked more lifelike
on that evening than it had at any
time since the supposed death. 1t wa
even reported that q growing warmth
could be detected in the lower limbs, and IL
was late at night before the workers De.
sisted. An incision was made in the lett
cheek, among other tests, 70 see whether
blood would flow therefrom, but no blood
came. A hot iron was applied 10 the chest
in order to ascertain II the skin would bis
ter, as il 4. said that while the skin blisters
there is life. But the test failed, and the
body was once more consigned TO the vault
by the sorowipg father, all hope having
been abandoned.