Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19
n.ys SPENT IN 4
COFFIN.


o,,,e Experience of an Attorney
G'"'s'"' or 81. Paul.
. horrible, horrible, sir-I lay
"s 'ot,in alive and just as conscious
~ :. was going on around me as I
=. this moment. I have always
- a historical temperament, and
u rov;o,,s occasion had lain in a
',,t;c state for twenty-four hours.
' ,sst time lay for three days, per-
'' luscious, as 1 said before, but to
Torrance as dead as Cesar"
r. sneaker was a we'll known attor-
~ &. Paul, who related the story
/. thrilling experience with cata-
:, conditionally that his name be
held from publication.
bos been said" continued the hero
i blood-curdling adventure, chat
are infallible signs which denote
!, and are unmistakable to the prac-
ave of the medico. Ideny that such
. case and no one has had a better
1.tupitv OF Judging than 1 have.
" T died, or rather when three of
r,ost known medical men in Boston
asserted that I was dead, I had been
lree days previous to my supposed
80 in condition of violent hysteria,
Ber;nc almost on insanity, owing to
doo+h Of a sister whom I loved to
r,csion. At the expiration of that
subsidized into the condition I have
;ouslv described. Ny death was at
,ted by the learned disciples of
,lapius to disease of the heart. The
old fogies held consultation
ne, and I heard them discuss the
sabilitv of a post-mortem examina-
there being slight difference of
ion among them as to what was the
n cause. At this time I was lying
board. perfectly rigid, and fully
led the fact thatI should be buried
i'll couldn't brace up and explain
ters with the next few hours. lin
lately blessed my mother and
her for their refusal to allow those old
hers to go for me with their knives
is all that saved me, l tell you.
seems wild story, but just the
it's true one. Why, I can even
ember laughing quietly to myself
ink that the windows had been
bed all around the room. 1t was
fish cold weather too, but 1 could
feel the cold much. I knew, how
that those windows had been
bed 70 prevent the decomposition of
tll-used frame. How did I get out
be fix? Well it was just by the
Of my teeth. When the under
and his fool assistant brought the
and I was lifted into it I knew at
that that coffin was too short and
ached to say so, but 1 couldn't
word to save my life. I was
[e-tied; hadn't control Of muscle.
nerest accident in the world pre-
I'D my being buried alive. I had
lying in the awful condition I have
|Hbed for over three days, when the
of an undertaken came around
n to screw up the coffin. A tack
been left sticking out from the
perry grazing the interior Of my
ophagus and the fellow in the coffin
mess commenced series OF vicious
at it with a sharp edged screw
cr. On one of these the instrument
c?i nail head and, flying off at 8
sent, took me on the jaw with con-
ratle force. The blood spouted
and I instantly regained the use
Y limbs. I wanted to knock sever
Is Of blue fire out of the coffin man
vas out Of that in no time. The
eEtaker skipped, but I put it al
his assistant, I am ashamed to say
he man was too Mortified at my
Erection to defend himself in the
t. Now you can just bet I am az
THY man as the most Of then
adays and I've issued strict order:
III the event Of my death I am no
e buried until an artery has beer
ped and my decease absolutel,
ven. st. Paul Globe.