The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-04-02
SAVED FROM A GRAVE.
A woMAN's FROZEN BODY THAWEo.
Julia Keating Found Encased in Ice and
Apparently Dead, Is Brought to Life
Again-A story Which smacks
of Mulhatton.
In. Y. World.l


Rector street near Washington Is very
desolate part of the city, and few people
pass through 1t late at night. Officer Null
rooney, of the Church street station, while
passing through Washington street near
midnight Saturday saw a dark bundle
lying in the shadow. He poked the thing,
and to his surprise found beneath 1t lay a
woman. The chilly rain had frozen he,
clothing. Her matted hair was stiff anu
stood out like wires, while her hand was
covered with icicles.
He attempted to rouse her, but there were
no signs of animation visible. Her face
was pallid and CHASTITY and the lashes OF
her eyes were covered with ice. He placed
his ear to her breat, but could not discover
any respiration and he concluded that the
woman was dead. He thought she might
have expired few minutes before he ar
rived. He raped for assistance and soon
another policeman came. A stretcher was
procured and together they bore her to the
station house. To carry her with more ease
they were obliged to beat the ice from her
dress and underclothing, which encased
her like armor.
"Woman dead-fi Oxen, ehW said the
Sergeant, as the men deposited their load
and wiped their faces.
"Yes, sir" was the response, "found her
on Rector street frozen stiff"
The light in the station.house was burn
ing low and the Sergeant asked Mulrooney
to turn it up and let him look at her face.
No one was able to recognize her, and as
the officer was about TO summon the dead
wagon, man entered and exclaimed:
"That's poor Julie Keating. Shelived in
No. 102 Washington street. Poor soul,
that was her last drunk"
SO saying he ran out. remarking that he
would inform her relatives, who would
bury the body.
The stretcher by accident stood near the
wall, opposite the stove, in which there
was a roaring coal fire that Redeemed the
iron work all around. Mulrooney, before
leaving, missed his club, and while looking
for it suddenly remembered that he placed
II upon the stretcher while on the way TO
the lookup. He went over to get 1t when
q second surprise astonished him more than
the first. He saw the woman's breast dis
tinctly upheave and drop as II breathing,
while the eyes, which before were closed,
now stood open; the ice had thawed away
from her lips, and the hand cold and
clammy before was now warm and red.
"By heavens, Sergeantp he exclaimed,
jumping back, shat woman is alive or
else -
The officer was right, for upon examine
ton it was found that Julia Keating was
drunk but not lifeless. A little rubbing
sufIiced TO revive her, but she had either
taken so much alcohol as TO become stupe-
fed or else it had undergone some change
through the exposure, as her faculties
seemed paralyzed. She was left TO herself
in room, and yesterday morning it was
found that she was just about able to go
to court with the aid Of an officer. Justice
Duffy recognized her at once as an old Of.
fender, familiarly called in police parlance
q "revolver," who for years has divided
her time between the city and Blackwell's
Island. It was learned that she served out
her last sentence on Saturday afternoon,
and Immediately got outrageously drunk
and dropping upon the icy pavement lay
there, unable to help herself, until she be-
came completely stiffened. ...
The Judge was very much surprised at
the strange story and could hardly imagine
how the woman could have survived it.
He, however, gave her the customary, dose
OF three months, which made her even
more animated than before. Just then
James Mooney, an undertaken, came in and
asked the Court II 1t was trying the dead
woman. He said that some of her rela-
tives had given him ten dollars as a de-
posit, with instructions to proceed with the
burial ut once.
Mooney was introduced to his corpse,
and his features contracted as he put on a
look Of disgust at the prospect Of losing his
fee.
swell, what shall do with this money!"
he asked.
No answer was given, and the disap-
pointed undertaken walked out with the
ten dollars, while the revivifed Julia was
taken below. As she took the policeman's
hand, she sang "rhe Pitcher Of Beer" but
her dulcet voice was drowned by the dis.
cordant yels of the other prisoners.