Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-19
A LIFE SAVED.
BY TIE rRANsxusloN OF BLOOD

Singular but Successful Man |
VINO Rejected Bis Wife Nut Greereda
Negro a. Dear Brother"
At 6 o'clock Saturday morning as John
H. Beatty, the night clerk of the Hotel
ST. Apdre, at No. II East Eleventh street,
New York. was passing up the main stairs
of the building he noticed strong smell
of gas, which he finally traced to room
on the first floor, having windows over
looking Eleventh street. The clerk gained
access to the room by means of the iron
balcony which fronts the building. In
the room was found young man lying in
bed unconscious. He was tightly wrapped
in the bed clothing aud bad a handkerchief
tied over the lower part of his face The
clerk at once turned of the gas which was
escaping from large chandelier Of four
burners and called Mr.. A. f Shryrer, the
proprietor of the hotel. He summoned
DR.. Anderson, of University place. and
DIR. Ferdinand C.. Valentine, of No. 2S
West Eleventh street. The physicians
applied the usual remedy for asphyxia,
but could not restore the man to conscious
ness. After every ordinary remedy had
been tried it was finally decided to attempt
to restore him by means of the Blundeil
system of TRANSMISSION of blood. Edward
Banks, jet black negro, twenty. one years
old, in healthy condition, offered himself
to the physicians, who opened vein in
his arm. The blood was received in cup
and from that transfused into an opened
vein in the arm of the dying man until
nearly a quart had been used. The result
was successful, aud the would be suicide
soon regained his senses. When he was
able to talk, however, he refused to give
his name.
Reference to the hotel books showed
that the young man had registered on
Friday evening about O'Clock as ~.
Hanson, city," He was assigned to room
No. 6 on the second floor, and was seen
leaving the hotel aboutS o'clock. lie re-
turned about II o'clock. The night clerk
says that he was perfectly sober and did
not act as if he were insane. From letters
found in an inner pocket of his waistcoat
it was ascertained that the young mans
name is F. de V. Okeburg, a copying
clerk in the Office of Vice President Van
Horn, in the Western Union building. He
is about thirty years old and resides will
his wife and child in Brooklyn. He was
: born in Sweden aud has always been 8
hard working man.
Word was at once dispatched to Mrs
Okeburg, but upon her arrival her husband
refused to speak to her, asserting that II
did not know her. lie also refused t.
speak to his child, but when Banks, th'
colored man, whose blood brought hin
back to life, entered the room Okeburs
, Immediately addressed him as "dea
. brother" He added that " Banks is m.
, brother and l do not know the woman.
The physicians are at a loss to account fo
|, Okeburg's singular freak, but they thin
that the feeling of antipathy to his famil
will soon pass away. Okeburg will be re
moved to his residence in Brooklyn.
q The chief of the department in whic
Okeburg is employed said to reporte
I that the young man seemed to be tinan
= cially embarrassed and that that probabl
: led to his attempted suicide. He receive
e a salary of 81, 600 yearly: He was at wor
q on Friday as usual and did not seem de
a pressed at all.