The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-17
TIE CORPSE WINKED.
Black Beverly Brown, Pronounced
Dead, Surprises the Doctors.
From the Net0 York Herald.

Black Beverly Brown, Pronounced
Dead, Surprises the Doctors.
From the NstO York Herald.
The corpse winked.
That is to say, that which had been de-
clared corpse winked. 1t was a lucky
wink, too, for it just prevented Beverly
Brown from being stretched out on slab
in the morgue, which would have chilled
what little life there was in him.
Now he is lying in O comfortable bed in
the warm ward Of hospital
Beverly Brown is a negro. He surrend-
cred the ghost to all appearances in the
Hudson county jail, on Jersey City Heights
about o'clock yesterday afternoon, and
County Physician Converse entered the Of
fee of Undertaken Speer. the official morgue
keeper. and requested Louis Heck, who was
i'll charge, TO transfer the body from the
Jail to the dead house.
Heck and Frank Newkirk, his assistant
drove to the jail The body, which was
lying on cot in dark cell, was laid in the
cofin-shaped box and the wagon was quick
ly rafting over the stones to the morgue,
two miles away.
1t may have been the jolting that aroused
the corpse, but when the box was dropped
in the dead house and the lid was removed
Heck and Newkirk were for moment
moving of Browns eyelids. The alleged
corpse continued winking. Newkirk was the
first to recover control of his tongue and
exclaimed, Hes aliveln
Heck ran for doctor and found Dr. Rem
wick. When they returned DR.. Vreeland
another physician. was in the undertaken 4
Office, and the two medical men stepped
into the morgue to examine the body. The
negro was lifted out of the box and laid on
the HnOr with hia haad N n r,ilIOxu
ANIMATION EVIDENT.
The signs of animation were more evil
dent The mans shirt was opened and the
rise and fall OF the chest told that the sup
posed corpse was breathing regularly. the
physicians tested the pulse and found about
65 beats to the minute. A few minutes
later the ambulance from the city hospital
arrived and Brown was removed to the
hospital. Stlmulants were administered
aud the patient was very far from being
corpse last night. His pulse was 80, vespira-
ton so and temperature normal.
It was the mailman of the jail who dis
covered Browns supposed death. Brown,
who occupied cell on the ground floor
was lying motionless on his cot and the in
experienced mailman could not discover a
vestige of life. He notified assistant Jailer
Hanley OF the death and later the county
physician went to the cell, made q hasty
superficial examination and reached the
conviction that Brown had Joined the silent
majority.
HAD BEEN THOUGHT INSANE.
Brown is waiter, SO years old. He had
acted queerlY and his friends, Convinced
his mind was unbalanced, caused his arrest
Sept. 2S Police Justice O'Donnell Of Jer-
sey City committed him to the county Jail,
subject to the order of the county physician.
DR.. Converse prescribed for Brown, but
be obstinately refused to take medicine and
successfully resisted when they attempted
to force it down him. He did not reject
food, but ate sparingly. What caused
him to lapse into the deathlike coma yester-
day was not explained by any of the ply
sicianS.