Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-07-03
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
opeer Episodes and Thrilling Adven-
lures Which Show that Truth 10
Stranger than Fiction.

lures Which Show that truth 10
Stranger than Fiction.
TIE civil tribunal, of Frankfort, Ger
many. has lust rendered its decision IN q
remarkable case in which a mother sued
her eldest son, the legal proprietor OF
the family grave, to prevent HIM from
excluding her from occupying It as her
last resting place by the side of her hus-
hand. The defendant, well-to-do mer-
chant. admitted that the deposition OF
the complainant was correct. but insisted
upon his right to deny her burial IN the
family vault. inasmuch as he personally
had bought and paid for it, and erected
memorial stone, dedicating it to his
father. The mother said she had prom
ised her husband to lie by his SIDE IN
death. The plot of ground had been
bought by the children, but after the
fathers death was acquired by her I'M
natural son for the purpose OF blackmali'
it being his intention TO refuse her Dur
ial by her husbands side in case she
/ favored her youngest son IN her last VIZ
and testament. The witnesses, on be-
4 half of the mother, swore that neither
I the complainant nor any Of the chlldren
| knew of their mothers will. The Judge
told the defendant that he was the most
s.heartess and inhuman wretch he had
ever seen or heard of, and that he would
4 give him four weeks time to reconsider
his action. If after that time had elapsed
the defendant was not willing to sign
paper which guaranteed to the mother
that she should be inferred in the family
grave he (the Judge would order the
| body of the father to be exhumed and
placed in lot to be purchased by the
mother. The Judge also decided thai
the inscription, "To my father by has
grateful son, - must be removed from the
monument which is to cover the bodies
of the father and mother.
BFFoRE the American Neurological
Association, which met recently in Phila-
delphia DIR. S. Weir Mitchell related the
strange story of Ansell Bourne, man
who completely forgot his identity for
two wears. The story has been told be-
fore. but not by responsible people or IN
an authenticated way Ansell Bourne
lived in Providence, r. l., with his wife
and family. and some years ago disap-
reared. 1t was said that he had taken
several hundred dollars with him and had
fled the city Two years afterwards a
man named William Brown, who kept a
molasses candy store in Norristown, Pa,
awoke in the middle of the night and
began screaming with terror. Although
he was in his own store, he imagined that
he had broken into some one elses. and
that he would be charged with burglary.
His neiehbors assured him that he was
William Brown. and that he owned the
store He said he was Ansell Bourne
and that he lived in Providence. His
identity was finally established, he sold
his candy store and returned to his old
home and old name in Providence. DIR.
Mitchell investigated the case. Bourne
had no remembrance of the period during
which he was Brown. He has recently
been mesmerized several times. Wher
in trance he becomes Brown again ano
can recolleet nothing of his state Of ex
istence as Bourne. Some of the doctors
received the story with incredulity, but
the main facts are well authenticated.
A QUEER freak Of nature has been OF
exhibition at a slaughter house IN New
York in the shape of double-mouthet
bull. The animal was received along
, with a large number Of Others bough
from a farmer in Westchester county
The bull has two separate and distinc
mouths, and both are used for the pur
poses for which mouths were created
/; The one in the place where the moutf
> ought to be is normal in its formation
and the superiluous mouth is locately oil
rectlv below the natural one. Ii Is per
fectly formed, save that its teeth look q
IL they had been tossed into the cavity
and had grown wherever they happened
J to strike, and are not strong enough 10
the proper mastication of food. Tn
upper mouth the animal uses for eating
while he drinks with the lower one
: When one is in operation the other goe
. through the motions as well, and it is
{ curious sight to watch him chew his cut
! with the two mouths working in rythmi,
: unison. Another curious malformatio
! which the animal exhibits is that hi
right fore shoulder is displaced, the join
+ being far down in the leg, thus givin
: him a queer motion when he walk
!, around the Enclosure where he is cor
n fined.
n THE vivid flashes of lightning that Ii
u up the heavens and made the Schuylki
River wharves for miles brighter tina
= day, during a recent nights storm, eA
a posed to a keen-eyed customs officer on
b Of the most gigantic smuggling. fraud
e ever known in the history of Philade
y phia. The German tank steamship
s Energie, was lying at Point Breeze loae
sr ing oil in bulk for Bremen, and ha
y almost completed loading when Nigh
4 Inspector Lamond saw, from the ligl
n sent from heaven the hurrying forms {
busy men bringing large boxes {
" merchandise on deck and lowering thel
W on small boats lying along the steamship
u side. Lamond, with loaded pistol
"a hand. rushed on deck and succeeded
=. catching f Ulrich, Doatman who wi
ef in charge of small boat, whom
$ placed under arrest, and, with the aid I
as the mounted police, locked him up f
"a the night The Others ran away and hi
M on the Energie, it being impossible