The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-22
DOSED HIS CORPSE
GHAsTIY PERFORMANCE ON THE
BODY OF DR. BOZZARIS
Chinese Doctor Persuades the Wife OF the
Cleveland Character Known as "Smith'
the Unknown" Who Recently DIED. io
Allow Him to Resuscitate the man
Medicine is Forced Down the CadaVers
nhr.+ot Intervals of Half an Hour I'M
til the Coroner Puts a Stop to It-his
Wife was Desperate.


Wife was Desperate.
Cleveland. Aug. 21.-An attempt was
made last evening by a Chinese physl-
ci.n m hiring back to life DR.. Bozzar-
RI. who committed suicide on Friday
evening, but the effort was unsuccess-
full.
DIR. Rozzarro's wife is heart broken
over her husbands tragic dealh, anu
was willing TO allow anything TO De
tried. Consequently when d. Joseph
r Chan. of No. 49, Ontario street, a
Chinese physician, appeared at her door
on Sunday evening ana explained ms
mission, she readily let him in. lie toid
her that he had read the account OIL
in the Leader of DR.. BoZzarro' untlIne-
w death and thought he could brlns
him back to life.
Chan. .'haye we resuscitated men VINO
have died from oVerdoSes of opium. AS
morphine has the same effect as opium
j believe that 1 can bring the doctor
back to life"
Mrs. BoZzarro and DR.. Chan entered
the room together where the dead man
Low In her nope Of having her husban
Law. In her hope of having her nus
hand brought back TO her, she forgot
To explain that the body had already
been embalmed. The room was DARK
but a light was soon procured. Inc
Chinese physician had come prepared,
and took some medicine out OF AiS
satchel. The dead mans wife sat IN
p chair sobbing as if her heart Wouiu
hraal, This had been the first ray OF
light that had penetrated her despair
and she could not control herself me
feeling that her husband might come
back to her grew stronger as every mo
ment passed The physician examined
tbe body and then took bottle of med
icir1e in his hand. He explained that
his nlan Of procedure was 10 force
this medicine down the dead man
throat at intervals OF an hour. he
said that the man was only lying IN
stupor, and that If the morphine couiu
be forced out with the medicine when
he held in his hand, signs OF life would
appear in a short time. At the con-
clusion of these explanatory words the
Chinese physician forced several tea
spoonfuls of the medicine down the
throat of the corpse. Shortly after TINS
he departed, leaving instructions that
the medicine should be administered
every half hour.
Mrs. BoZzarro promised that she
would do as directed The physician
said he would call in the morning
Mrs. BoZzarro was faithful to the trust
imposed upon her, and although weary
from fatigue and loss Of sleep, she re-
manned with the dead man until morn
ing, administering the medicine as dl-
rected, and watching for signs of life
to appear. She stood continually over
the body, endeavoring to catch but one
glimpse of life. AS the hours slowly
passed she felt of the body at intervals
and finally thought she noticed 1t be-
come pliable. Her hopes again arise,
CHI irc forced
mans mouth open and applied more of
the seeming elixir of life. For several
hours she intently gazed into his rigid
countenance, watching for another ray
of hope but she was destined to disap-
pointment. The gray streaks OF dawn
but the anxious woman still hung by
her husbands bier, waiting for the
signs of life which she confidently ex-
pected would appear.
At an early hour the Chinese physi-
clan reappeared, and seemed satisfied
with the result Of his work. He asked
permission to have the body kept for
five days, at the expiration of which
time, if life did not appear. he was will
ing to concede that death was the
master. Mrs. BoZZarro Immediately
telephoned to Coroner Arbuckle, stat
ing the circumstances. The coroner at
once went to the house and stopped all
-
zarro that the body had been embalrned
some time ago, and that all further eff
forts would be useless. He said that a
quart and a half of poisonous embalm-
ing fluid would surely kill the man. II
the morphine did not The Chinese
physician ACKNOWLEDGED the fact apd
left the house. Mrs BoZzarroS, after
the night of suspense, became almost
Frustrated, but bravely bore up under
her heavy disappointment and sorrow,
and resigned herself to the inevitable.
The theory of the Chinese physician
is at least interesting: A Leader re-
porter went to the office of Dr. Chan
Monday morning. but unfortunately.
Gid not find him there. Another Chi
nese physician, Gee 10y. by name, with
his office at No 81 Prospect street, was
visited. He is probably 80 years old
and appeared to be the senior Chinese
physician in the city. Surrounded by
Elas: jars containing strange looking
herbs. ne talked in an interesting way
although il was hard to understand
everything he said.In his talk he show
ed considerable professional jealousy
against his brother physician DR.. Char
He said that he had known of many
cases in China where men had appar-
emily been dead for twenty-four hours
from overdoses of opium. and after
wards resuscitated. But if the man ha6
had been over twenty-four hours he did
not have much faith in anyone being
able to bring back life.
ouong Hop. of No. 3l04 st. Clair street
n Chinese laundryman, said that h
knew of persons being apparently dead
for a week in China and being brought
back to life.
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