The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-02-05
NEARLY BURIED ALIVE ONCE.
mrs SNAKES FEARED THTs MTeHT
HET ne HER FATE

So Her Husband was SLOW 20 BeIievs whsr
she ND DIe-she was n PhvsIeisa sns
Had Carried Bullet In Her Head for 10
Hssrs-Did Her Early Lover shoot Her
The fear that she wauld be buried alive some
day caused Frances Dayton Smales. the wife
OF Alvin smales OF Orange. much concern Our
ing her life and partly in remembrance OF her
solicitude. and partly because he believed that
her fears might not be without foundation. her
husband refused to believe for some time after
her death on Saturday that she actually had
| died
| At @ o'clock Saturday morning Dr. Thomas
n. Gray Of Orange went 10 Mr. Smaless rooms
| at 81 Centre street Mr.. Smaes. who was sit
ting beside his wiie's bed said she was alive
| but that her pulsation was rather feeble. al
though even then DR.. GRAY could detect death
| signs and saw she had been dead for an hour
| or more
Mr.. Smales believed there might be reason
TO doubt this. and later in the day sent for DR..
| Iierson. DIR. Pierson knowing that DR., Gray
had attended Mrs Smales. declined to call and
told DR.. Gray to summon County Physician
Elliott.
DR.. Gray had already done that. and late In
the afternoon. he and DR.. Elliott went to Mr.
Smaes's rooms, and DIR. Elliott decided that
she was dead and had died OF heart disease, to
which she had been subject
DR.. Elliott wished to perform an autopsy. but
refrained. because the autopsy was not alb
solutely necessary. out OF regard for Mr..
smales and the dead woman.
In 1874. when she was liz her eighteenth
year, Mrs. Smales received bullet wound In
friends say. The bullet was not extracted and
Mrs. Smales carried 1t TO the time OF her death.
was finally believed to be dead. and she was
laid out Preparations for the funeral went
stirred and showed signs OF life
She recoyered IN due time sustaining as
& U the T0Sni rns p i5s Of her
.fecsnse OF her experience Mrs. smales
She got, Mr.. smales to promise that tho
an autopsy, on her, for. she knew that.
otter 9o carrying bullet II her brain
cor SF T4, y'l ans S sSS y0% o interest S
medical men. who would be anx ious to get the
and how the brain had been affected.
,t Sae WAS WAS a. phgsiclan herself having gradp.
city about twenty years ago.
After she had recovered from her wound she
believed she could possibly extract the bullet
and with that end in view. those who knew her
say. she stud ed medicine. After finishing at
the college she went to Germany. 1t is said, |
and comrleted her studies. and later practised
Her friends did not want to talk about the
youth, but this story found circulate in Or:
anRe yesterday. She came from Virginia It |
seems. and when n girl Was sent. alter the
death OF her mother. to The Gunnery," a |
famous school in Washington. Conn.
She fascinated a young southern boy to such |
an extent that when her favor could not be Oh |
tanned the so-called accident followed. Later |
in life her marriage to Mr.. Smales took place,
and they lived until a few MOI this ago in Bruns- |
wick. Ga. where he had u photograph studio. |
Mrs. Smales was much Interested in charita-
BILE work. and founded II hospital in Bruins
wick. and also II Is said. the first training |
school for nurses in the South.
Last fall. when she and her husband went to
live with Mrs. Amelia Bro at 81 Centre street
che became I'll with pneumonia and had not
been well since.
So afraid was Mr. Smnles Of being precipi-
tate in calling in the undertaken alter her
death that It was not until DR.. Elliott had fin
ished his examination that Undertaken Fre.-
man was allowed to prepare the body for
burial Mrs Smales's funeral will be held
this aitern Don from the house.