New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-03-16
THREE TIMES CALLED DEAD.
HAS LIFE LEFT GEORGE KYLE AT LA>l
HIS SISTER DECLARES 1T HAS NoT-A PHYSICIAN
SAYS 1T HAS-TARTS OF THE BODY
STILL WARM.


STILL WARN
At the bedside of a dead man in the back par
lor of the house No. 800 West One-hundred-and-
Twelfth-st. a little woman with pale, hagsard
face has been watching the body OF her dead
brother since Saturday morning, for She has re-
fused TO bclieye him to be dead, and Will not give
I'D hope until the undertaken is compelled 10 re-
move the body. George Kyle the wellknowh
actor and author, was thought to have dled from
n stroke of paralysis on Saturday afternoon ABOUT
4 o'clock, but after an hours suspension Oh all
visible animation during which time he was
thought to be dead he recovered Consciousness
and retained it until about O'Clock Sunday after
noon, when again all the symptoms of death ap-
pearcd, and the attending physician pronounced
him dead Ie did not recover consciousness again,
but the body retained its nomal warmth more than
twenty-four hours afterward and even as late as
Yesterday afternoon strange degree of warmth was
noticeable around bis heart and lungs. lie had al
WAYS had presentimeut, which he frequently eX-
pressed and his family has entertained the same
felef, that he would some time be buried alive. Tbs
feeling was f0stered by the apOpectlc tendency
which Mr. Kyle had inherited, and as ne died
from this aimcnt, and showed such remarkable
symptoms of life after being stricken on Friday,
his sister, Mrs. Mary Kyle Dallas, in whose home
he had been living, has been unwilling TO believe
him to be dead.
Mr. KYLE was a man OF exceedingly nervous
temperament, and had wonderful command of
the muscles of his face. He had invented what
he called facial jig and by playing soft
accompaniment on the piano and twitching the
muscle, of his face in fantastic manner in rhythm
with the music he produced a weird elect. On
Friday night he attended reception of the Sal
L .rit- hi1
! facial ill., He walked to the piano when the
time for his performance came and had struck u
few notes when the left side of his face and body
was stricken with paralysis, and he would have
fallen TO the floor if his friends had not sup
ported him He placed in cab ana driven
to his home and carried to bed. Dr. j. Bassett
Kirby of No. 1922 West e-hundred-and-thir-
tccnth-st., the family physician, was called, and
did not at first consider the case Immediately
critical On Saturday afternoon at o'clock,
however, Kyle gave every appearance of having
died from apopleXy
Dr. Kirby said TO a Tribune reporter last
night Il will not deny that there has been
reason for believing that Kyle was In trance.
In the first place, he was extremely young to die
from apopcxy. Then he died while IN
convulsion very suddenly, and | hardly believed
that he had passed away. l worked over nm
half an hour, but could discover no pulse heart
beat or breath. Saturday the day before, at the
same time. almost precisely the same thing oc-
cured. but he rallied after time. But when
this happened on Sunday found the body getting
rioid Thi, was about 4 o'clock At o'clock
was sent for and found that the body, InsteaI
of getting colder was actually getting
made hypodermic injections Of brandy and ammonia
and sent a strong electric current through the
| body. But all to no purpose. AS the body still
felt warm however, and there WAS no necessity
of an immediate burial, gave orders to postpone
the funeral until after unmistakabe signs OF
death had set in. | visited the body this after
noon and found that decomposition had actually
set n and the odOr was beginning TO be notice
able There is no doubt that George Kyle is
very dead man.
Mrs Dallas however, still persists in watch
ing the body, parts of which are still warm, and
the limbs do not have that rigdity peculiar to
death Every few minutes the faithful watcher
lifts the arms to show how limp and flexible they
are. and 10 allow one to feel the warmth in the
body. The corpse is still in the bed in which Mr.
KYLE died, where it will probably remain until
the limit provided by the health laws Is reached
which will he on Thursday.
William Mason, the undertaken who was called
in Yesterday afternoon to look after the body, said
10 a Tribune reporter: The corpse certainly re-
tans its heat in an extraordinary manner. IL
is no uncommon thing for bodies 10 keep their
warmth much longer than people generally
imagine but this is an exceptional case.
George Kyle leaves one child, boy who is four
teen years old His wife died in Chicago
about two years ago. and since that time!
KYLE had practically given up his pro-
fcssion He was born in lSj4 and
from early life had been connected with the stage.
His impersonations had won him many admirers,
while his personal traits made him many friends
He played in The Private secretary lor
several wears with one of \. VI. Palmer > com
panics He also well known III Ihr Chimes
Of Normandy" The Widow Bedou Lg Gag
and The Jolly Bachelors" During the last lew
wears he devoted much of his time TO literary
work such as writing short stories ana articles
of a philosophical and political nature A volume
of his sketches has recently been published. Inc
funeral will probably take place tomorrow, ana
thc burial will be in Woollawn Cemetery.
IT, i. said to be popularity Of tie hyl family
that the members Of il always were imagining
that those OF them who have died were really
in 4 trance and they wcn all III fear of being
buried alive In 1855, on the death OF brothcf-
in-law Of Mrs Dallas il is said that the under
toLcr v-,s not sent for until three days after the
death occurred and that even then an enOrt was
made Ia mt of the burial. Mr.. Kyle leaves
thrcr sisters who were with him at the time OF
hjs de,th The husband Of Mrs. Dallas Is the
Editor of The American bookseller.