Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-11-19
FROM DEATH TO LEE.

singular Story From Maine of the Deeth,
noriai and Resurrection of Joseph DYER
-Ihe Gratifying Result of Midnight
Grave-Robbery BY Medical students.
PORTLAND, Me-, November 12.-An
evening paper published a sensational
story based on the alleged return to
life of young man after he was laid
In his grave. Fourteen months ago
Joseph Over, twenty years old, was
thrown from a wagon and received in
Juries from which he died, as was sup
posed. He was buried In Evergreen
Cemetery. Young Dyer left mother
and father, and was engaged to be mar
ried to girl who is now employed in a
young Dyer's mother and the young lady
received mysterious hint that it would
be we'll to discard mourning dresses and
bonnets, for Joseph was probably moi
dead after all and might be expected to
come back any day. Acting on the ad.
vice, the women gave up wearing black.
Some days ago suspicion concern
that the grave in Evergreen
was the identical cofi n in which Joseph
had been buried, but there was no sign
OF the body in it. The corpse had been
removed, but in what manner it wa 8 i'm
possible to tell. There being no neces-
sity of keeping an empty coffin buried,
young Dyer's parents took the coffin home
with them. day or two ago Mrs. Dyer
stood by the coffin relating the circum-
stances as far as she knew them to a
neighbor, when the door opered and Jo-
seph appeared alive and we'll, saying:
"Don't open the coffin. mother, for here
lam" Then ensued a remarkable scene.
The mother threw herself into the arms
of her resurrected son, and the Joy of
the family knew no bounds. The young
lady to whom Dyer was engaged was
summoned and the couple renewed their
promises of love. Naturally enough the
first question asked after the first joyful
exclamation was over, was: Elbow did
you come to life?"
Young Dyer remembers nothing of be.
ing put in coffin and buried alive. The
first he recol]ects since the accident hap
pened on Portland bridge is being with
friends who treated him we'll. 1t is re-
lated that some young doctors, said to
belong in BROOKLYN, dug up the body for
the purpose of dissection. The fact that
young DYER was the victim of an accI-
dent made his body more desirable for
medical uses than if he had been dis
eased When the doctors came to oper-
ate on the body they discovered signs of
life. Thew Immediately set to work to
bringing the young man to his senses,
and, after time, succeeded. It was long
before he began to give evi.
dences of complete recovery and
the students were afraid he might
die in earnest on their hands
Gradually he got well, and the circum-
stances of his strange burial and resur-
rection were tolu to tim. 1t is under
stood that the young man is reticent
about where he has been and what he
has been doing since his recovery. This
is not considered strange, as the medical
men who got possession of his body in
so questionable a manner would hardly
care to have their names known. Young
Dyer is DOW about his ordinary farm
business and is apparently undisturbed
by having gone through the forms of
death and burial, and having had 50 mar
row an escape from being smothered in
his