Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-01-18
Buried Alive.

A most, extraordinary case which has
astonished all the medical profession in
Russia and Poland, has just come from
Warsaw. A short time ago there died
ID the 'outskiftS IF the ola capital
young peasant woman who was buried
with that haste which characteriZes the
funerals of the Russian peasants. A few
days atterward doctors were called to
determine the cause of her death, but
none could say positively as to the
nature OF disease that had shown no
symptoms whatever. and which had
brought this young woman to prema-
ture and sudden end. She was buried
in due course. However, it was ru-
mored about the city that her hus and
often ill-treated her, and at her death
some people went so far as to say that
he was the cause of it. These rumors
spread more and more until they
reached the ears of the authorities, who
Immediately caused the body to be ex-
humed. The judicial commission fol-
lowed the grave-digger to the cemetery,
and the latter proceeded to disinter the
remains. Having reached it rope was
lowered, and. after fixing it firmly
around the half-rotten coffin, the CHASTITY
freight was hoisted once more to the
level of the earth. They opened the
bier and, to their horror and stupefac-
ton, discovered not only the woman
but a second sharer of this her last rest
ing place, in the shape Of a child that
was lying at her feet. The child had
been born in the tomb, where it had
lived for several hours. Thus the tomb
of the mother had been both it's cradle
and tomb at the same time. AS to the
mother. it was d scovered that she had
been buried alive when in comatose
state. and, on returning to conscious
ness. had given birth to the child. It
was easily seen that the poor woman had
suffered terribly.
Burying people alive in Europe has
occurred too often OF late years, and
can only be accounted for by the mat
tention of doctors, which. in this case,
should be treated as criminal offense.
The fear o the living of being immured
al We has gained such a power over the
mind that Russians, when on their
death-bed, have left legacies for the
foundation and maintenance of mortu-
aries in their native city, where sup
posed corpses are placed for three days
in the hope that their thread of Ii may
not have parted. The mortuary of Fri
burg can be quoted as an instance of
these peculiar institut ons.. which are
confined principally to Eastern Europe,
where cataleptic fits are known to be
more prevalent than in any other part ]
of the g,o.e. Ell
In t. center Of the cemetery at Fri
burg stands house VIII CHI, to an unob-
servant person, would have every APP
pearance of small chapel This
thought would be suggested through the
sight of a tower, VIII CHI contains a bell;
but. on entering this lilliput an build
ing, the searcher for knowledge might
be astonished to see human form, dead
to all appearance The stiff, rigid body
rests upon marble slab, dressed in
deaths garments. and the rings which
depend from wrey rope that runs
through the ceiling, are attached to its
fingers Aturther inspection, aided by
the theory of the apparatus which the
gen al attendant is viii ng to give to- all
visitors, would explain this somewhat
mysterious position of the dead body.
The fingers of the supposed corpse are
placed in magnetic steel rings that fit
tightly. Should the belly show any
signs of termination, the slightest culver
of the nerves o the fingers would affect
the steel rings, which n their turn COM
municate W tn another stronger mag
netic current that forces itself on, the /
bell. making it toll, which brings an at
tendant physician to the rescue. BY
this means several bodies placed in this
mortuary since 1865 have returned to
life. A peasant woman, named Pezoff-
eki, recently walked from her tomb on
the third day after burial. Peters
burg Cor. Philadelphia Press. ~ '-'f
The cause of Julius Goldsmith's
first attempt al, suicide, in San Fran