The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-08-10
RETURNED TO LIFE.
am Mace Falls Overheard ana Is
Reported Dead-His euIng at
the StAtiOn.

Z IetnaFkaOle story OF app9r d death
and resurrection. say the Phil adelph;a
IresS.
Mace IS Il largo and brawny young
man, VIII an attractive face excep;
'or the absence Of an eye, which was
closed several years ago through an
accident, and gives him Il tacetious
east of couDtenanco even IA his r3oz:
solemn moments. At present he lives
with his mother at the southeast cor
7er of Front anu Jefferson streets, and
) employed as a driver for a business
house at Second and Girard avenue.
Last summer Mace and his mother
.iyed at Thompson and Adrian streets.
Dnd was employed by the firm of Stead
4 Murphy as a Iaborer. On a Wedur,.
lay in the latter part of August he
was ordered with two other emplO,es
0 60 TO the Queen street wharf on the
Delaware river, to load resin into one
# the firm wagons. While bu,lly
'ngage at the work. aud standing on
.'r cap log of the dock, Mace lost his
balance and fell backward into the
aver.
it was about 3 o'cIocb in the after
noon and the cry of q man overheard
Drought a great crowd Of w~harf-louug-
7, and long shOremen to the scene.
lie body renamed in the waite m
usually long and a small skiH-lOau Of
'c~cuers were about abandoning the
search when it was suddenly sighted
ot the bow. doubled like 4 ball. and
caught with p boat hook Just as it was
sinking again. AS soon as it was
hoisted to the dock eager hands
attempted to -@suscitate the appar-
emily drowned man. They rolled him
over a barrel and exhausted every
other means ordinarily us ed in similar
cases, but without success.
A doctor was summoned and after
making an examination said very posi-
lively: This man is dead" That
was enough for Nace's fellow-work-
men. who hurried off TO convex the
news to his mother and friends up-
town. The policemen who rang the
patrol-box said simply: Send the
wagon to the Queen street wharf for
the body of a drowned man. When
it arrived the patrol sergeant and his
crew found a crowd surrounding the
body, but no one present who knew
who the dead man was. His official
Inquiry developed nothing more than
that m2" had been fshed out of the
river and that the doctor had pronoun-
ced him dead.
The body was placed in the wagon
aud taken to the Second district station
house. where it was laid with little
ceremony in the stone corridor facing
the cells. The day sergeant dispatch
to the central station, based on the
patrol sergeant g report, was: 'Coro-
ner wanted at Second district; BODY of
an unknown man drowned at Queen
street wharf"
While Samuel Mace was numbered
with the unknown dead in the police
report his aged mother, surrounded by
ng friends and Relatives.
waited in the little uptown home ex-
pecting every moment the arrival of
his body. His fellow workmen. in
their haste to convey the news to the
mother, had thOughtlessly left the
police without any information to es-
tabllsh his identity, and the distract
ing scenes Of grief had dispelled any
afterthought in the matter from their
When the night force came on at
the Second district the Sergeant and
turnkey were notified that the body Of
a drowned man was in the corridor
waiting the coroner 2 to be
to the morgae. The second dis
trict station-houss Is peculiarly built,
its cells separated from the
main building BY a narrow stone pas
sage that opens at either end in the
yard. Over the entrance to the CORR
dor q dim gaslight burns at night.
That night there were no prisoners in
the cells.
About 9 o'clock. when tEe turnkey,
who was sitting ia the passage. heard
a slight nose. like something moving
the corridor, he was puzzled. and
intently. The second time ii
more distinctly. and had the an
mistakable sound Of a footstep on the
floor. II startled him, and his
fear was increased when he remember
cd that there was nobody inside-noth-
ing but the body Of the MIA iished out
the river mastering ali his cour-
age he approached the wicker gate.
and peering through he saw the figure
q man standing upright in the dim
light. The next moment the turnkey
ran wildly through The building, mp
the sergeant nerves and
tobacco and crYing;4 That body Is up
and walking aroundi''
me Sergeant laughed at him. but the
turnkey declared that IN his single
through the wicket he had seen
the unknown dead man standing nc
fun height with boEil arms out
stretched and his eye fixed vaguely on
tho uncertain light toward which he
was cropping.
PshawlN said the sergeant still
fidicuiing the story, you've got en-,
or else you're dreaming.
The turnkey insisted that he was
telling the truth, and the sergeant
consented to investigate. They had /
need 60 60 far. for Already ID the
stone passage the unknown dead
slowly feeling his way with that
same bowildered movement and STARE, 1
while from his lips came Che almost