Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-06-17
STRANGE EXPERIENCE.
A TOLEDO MAN LIVES THROUGH AN
AGE IN THIRTY SECONDS.

A Toledo Bee man WAS sitting in
an office on Adams Street recently
chatting with the occupant, a well
known young lawyer, when the
conversation turned to dreams
and the rapidity with which
the brain worked during
sleep. YES" remarked the
legal gentleman, 1.-The brain Is a
marvellous continuance. IL that fact
ever skipped my memory it was
brought iOrcibly TO mind several
days since. will tell you how 1t
happened. / was suffering with \
humping toOthache, and resolved
to have the offender out. Accord
ingly l made for the neares. dent
lists while my determination was
strong, and, dropping into dental
chair, answered TO his 'will you
take gas" in the affirmative. 1t
was my initial experience with the
fiuid, but inhaled 1t without ex-
periencing any peculiar sensation at
first.
81 noticed presently, however,
that the office clock licked abnOr-
mally loud; In fact, it soon was
pounding away like one Of krupp's
giant hammers. Finally / drifted
away into another state and found
myself in Il strange city. Several
months passed and numerous trivial
things happened which remem-
Ter Yividly, even the minutest de-
tails. Somehow or other | got in
with a fast crowd OF young men,
and one night, during n quarrel, 1
shot ami fatally oInded one OF
my companions.
"a was arrested, and, after the
usual preliminary proceedings, my
case came up FOR trial in the court u
| common pleas. The trial was a
lengthy one. / remember well the
district attorneys summing up and
the strong defense my attorney
made in my behalf, but without
avail. for the court sentenced me 10
be- executed by electricity, a strange
and fearful death. My lawyer got a
stay Of the execution of the sentence,
and the case was carried to the cir
cult court Another lengthy trial
ensued, concluding by the judge
confirming the decision Of the lower
court, and ] again became recon-
ciled To the thought Of being execu-
ted. Ny lawyers were untirlng,
and finally made another effort
to save my life, carrying the case
to the supreme court. / think
something like n year and a half
elapsed before the case came TO trial
for the third time.
However, its conclusion bore no
fruit to my liking, for l was again
sentenced TO an electrical execution.
| spent many weary days in prison,
and il was a relief when the day
set apart for my death came around.
| awoke early, bathed, ate a hearty
meal, and at 10 O'Clock, when the
turnkey beckOned me 10 follow him
to the bathroom, | was wholly pre-
pared TO depart this life. seated
myself in the somewhat clumsy
chair, and my arms and legs were
strapped tightly down a aamp-
ened sponge was placed ON my
head, and although | didn't look up,
| knew well tina; the connection
was made that would soon make me
human conductor. | closed my
eyes, but opened them just in time
to see the jailOr drop white hand
kerchief. At the same instant the
current was turned on. 4 dreadful
wrenching, burning pain shot
through my system and then-and
then / came to. The tooth had just
been pulled. l was under the in
fuence Of gas just thirty seconds.
Yes, the human brain is rapid
WORKER