Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-10

mere child's play.
 And yet it would seem as if we had but entered upon the threshold of this great and subtle power. Recent experiments made by the Paris medical men savers of the possible, the miraculous and seems unreal and ghastly as some of the midnight terro<s that gathered in the brain of Edgar A. Poe. Yet this is the nineteenth century and we have the impassioned testimony of some of the worlds greatest scientists in the columns of the most reliable medical and scientific jour- nals of Paris.
 Jean Parsuial was convicted of the murder of his mistress in the Rue de Chambord, No. 189, on February 9th, most horrible and brutal murder, was captured the same night in wine shop in the Quartier Latin, much frequsnted by students, and after fair trial was finally condemned to be guillotined on June 2d. During the trial it was endeavored to be shown by the lawyers that late hours and dissipation, coupled with very hard study, had produced g condition of the brain closely approaching if not actually insanity. Medical experts of the highest standing tes- tified on both sides, and between them there was very bitter feeling. When, therefore, the young student was condemned it was de- cided to hold very careful autopsy on his brain, and to test electrically it's sensibility after death as first step. Very powerful electric batteries were therefore procured A room near the scene of the execution WAS
 
 pointed day to get the body as quickly and
 secretly to the room as possible. The au- thorities had fully consented.
 When, therefore, on the terrible day of death (June 2d) Jean Parsuial was laid on the frame of the guillotiRe, his neck on the
 block and the heavy knife had slid down the grooves and severed the head completely from the body, trained assistants seized the head, secured it against the cut surface of | the neck, and enfolding all in 8 heavy ! shroud, hurried with their lifeless burden, still warm and bloody, to the room where the physicians and electrical savants await ed it.
 The body having been quickly laid upon the table, dozen coarse stitches were deftly and rapidly taken to secure the grinning and contorted head to the neck and the poles of eight very powerful batteries were at once applied. For a moment there was no move
 ment, but then suddenly the score of scien- lists started back in horror. The muscles of the face began to twitch, the eyes to roll the tongue was protruded, the jaws worked and then-suddenly and without warning the two arms were thrown up in the air, the hands grasping the severed head while the body sat erect, save for @ trif1ing swayine from side to side. The eyes of the living dead man, distended and ghastly, looked
 straight into those of his experinenters, who had recoiled in horror and who were stupe- fed to hear the animated corpse utter the
 following words: "You are doctors; you are
 torturing nay poor body to settle some silly
 dispute about my brain; all you need know
 is how to cure the brain and nerves, not how
 to torture And agonize them. Scotch Oats
 Essence will do all this and more. Now you
 know the secret, for Gods sake let me die in
 peace," and the body falling heavily back
 ward, the head tore out the stitches and
 rolled to a corner of the room.