Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-07-14
THE BODY VANISHED IN THE AIR.

THE BODY VANISHED In THE AK.
Remarkable Disappearance ofthe Corpse of
Young Man in Xenia, Ohio.
On the morning of the 14th day of
August. 1872. Charles J. Reid, young
man of twenty-five years living at Xenia,
O.. fell dead while walking across the
dining-room in his fathers house. The
family consisted of his father, mother,
two sisters, and cousin, boy of fif-
teen.
All were present at the breakfast
table when Charles entered the room,
saws A. G. B. in the San Francisco EE-
an,i7ser, but instead of taking his ac-
customed seat near the door by which
he had entered, passed it and went OBJ
liauely toward one of the windows
with what purpose no one knows.
He had passed the table but few
steps when he fell heavily to the floor
and never again breathed.
The body was carried into q bed
room and, after vain efforts at resuscita-
ton by the stricken family, left lying
ON the bed with composed limbs and
covered face In the meantime the boy
had been hastily dispatched for ply
stefan, who arrived some twenty min
utes after the death. He afterward re-
membered as an uncommon circum-
stance that when he arrived the weep
ing elations-father, mother, and two
sisters-were all in the room out of
which the bedroom door opened, and
that door was closed. There was no
other door To the bedroom
This door was at once opened by the
father of the deceased, and as the ply
sician passed through it he observed
the rigid outlines of the body under
the sheet that had been thrown over it;
and the profile was plainly discernible
under the face-cloth, clear-cut and
sharp, as profiles of the dead seem al
ways to be.
He approached and lifted the cloth.
There was nothing there.
He pulled away the sheet.
Nothing.
The family hal followed him into
the room. At this astonishing discovery
If so it may be called-they looked
at one another, at the physician, at the
bed, in speechless amazement, forget
ting to weep.
A moment later the three ladies re-
quired the physicians care; all had
tainted and fallen to the floor. The
fathers condition was but little better;
he stood in a stupor, muttering mar
ticulately and staring like an idiot.
Having restored the ladies to cen
seriousness the physician went to the
window-the only one the room had,
opening upon garden. 1t was licked
on the inside with the usual fastening
attached to the bottom bar of the up
per sash and engaging with the lower.
No inquest was held-there was
nothing to hold it on; but the physician
and many others who we're curious as
to this remarkable occurrence made
the most searching investigation into
all the circumstances, but without re-
suit. Charles J. Reid was dead and
"gone" and that is all that is known to
this day.
Two Anecdotes OF the Late Emperor.
Here are couple of anecdotes of the
late Emperor Wilhelm. One day he
was inspecting the gardens at Babels-
berg, accompanied by a young gar
dener. He noticed that the latter
showed an ever-increasing anxiety and
preoccupation. and seemed to find diff
ficulty in attending to his royal master.
"Tell me, now, straightforwardly, my
good fellow" said the Emperor, "what
is troubling you?" The gardener then
told him he was an "Einiahrig" volun-
teer, and that at such an hour, nearly
approaching, he was due at the bar
racks at Potsdam. "Then put on your
uniform and hurry off as fast as your
legs can carry you" When the gar
dener soldier reappeared the Emperor
was in his carriage; he told him to
jump in, and ordered the goodman to
drive his fastest. When they arrived
at the barrack yard the hour had al
ready struck. Herr Hauptmann,"
said the Emperor to the officer in COM
mand, Il have brought you this lag
gard, but when yoI are setting his
punishment do not forget that all the
blame is due to me-"
When the Gear Alexander II. visited
Wilhelm at Ems they used to sit down
in the Brunnen promenade and chat to-
gether. AS soon as it became known
that the two great Emperors could be
SO easily seen the promenade quickly
became crowded. The Gar was
troubled. and irritated by the public
curiosity, and wished to move away,
but the Kaiser never felt any distaste
for the loyal swarming of the German
people. However, one morning. in
order to comply with the Cars wish,
he rose to go, when he caught sight of
Prince Bismarck coming along the
promenade. "Ah," said he, "now we
shall have quiet. ~Why SOP" asked
the Gar "Look there" responded
the Kaiser, pointing to Bismarck,
"yonder comes the man whom they
will think greater sight than either of
us When the people catch sight of
Bismarck they will run after him and
leave us alone"
No Use.
IL