The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-11-20
FROM DEATH 70 LIZ.

>snsul story From Maine % the Death.
Martial and RssurPectlea ~ Joseph Dvev
The Gratifying Result ~ Nldnlshe
Robbery ~ Medical Students
PORTLAND, ME-. November lam
evening paper published . sensational
story based on the alleged return 10
life Of . young man alter he was laid
In his grave. Fourteen months ago
Joseph Over, twenty years old. was
thrown from . wagon and received In
Iuries from which he died, ~ was sup
posed. lie was buried In Evergreen
Cemetery. Young DYER left . mother
and father, and was engaged TO Do mar.
risd to girl who II now employed In
family 10 this city. some weeks ago
young Dycr's mother and the young lady
received q mysterious hint that u would
be well 70 discard mourning dresses ana
bonnets, for Joseph was probably not
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
Ing Josephs death became 80 strong
that the grave in Evergreen
Cemetery was opened. There
was the Identical comn In which Joseph
had been buried, but there was no sign
Of the body In Il. The corpse had been
removed, but In what manner II was i'm.
possible 10 tell. There being no neces-
sity Of keeping an empty coffin buried.
young Dyer's parents took the CO fiin home
with them. A day or two ago Mrs. Dyer
stood Nv the cofilu relating the crcum.
stances as far as she knew them 1, a
neighbor. when the door opened and 10.
semi appeared alive aud well, saving:
'sDon't open the coffin. mother, for here
am" Then ensucd 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. Natura " enough the
first question asked after the first Joyful
exclamation was over, was: "How did
you come 70 llfef'
Young Dyer remembers nothing OF be.
ing put in q cohi aud buried alive. The
hrst he rccollects since the acciaent hap
pcned on Portland bridge Is being with
friends who treated him we'll. II Il 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 accl.
dent msdc bis body more desirable for
medical uses than II he had been dis.
eased. When the doctors came to opcr.
ale on the body they discovered signs OF
life. Thew immediately set 10 work Il
bringing the Young msn 10 his senses,
and, after time. succeeded. II was long
before he began 10 give ey.
dences OF complete recovery and
the students were afraid he might
die In earnest on their hands
Gradually ne got we'll, and the circum
$ tances Of his strange burial and resur
rectlon were told to I'm. II il under.
stood that the young man Is reticent
about where he has been and what be
has been doing since his recovery. This
IL not considered strange, rs the medical
men who Got possession II his body 10
20 gu. sti0nable Z manner would hardly
rare 10 have their names known. Young
DYER u now about his ordinary farm
business and II apparently undisturbed
BY having gone through the forms OF
death and burial. and having had % mar
row IN escape from being smcthcred 10
hie Grave