The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-18
WOMAN IS RAISED
AS If FROM DEAD.
Strange Restoration to Life While
Being Measured for Her
Coffin. q
ew York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service.
London, Jan. 18.-f9I only remem- a
Der kissing my husband and feeling,
/ was getting colder and colder. Every
thing else is a blank to my memory,
until I knew I was being carried down
stairs Then tainted again. ~
Thus spoke Mrs. Holden, young
woman Of Hampton village in Lanca1
shire, in explanation IF the extraordina-
ny circumstances under which she was
brought back to life while being meas
ured for her coffin by an undertaken.
She looked pale and feeble, but spoke
cheerfully.
spells, y she added, tever since I was
born, and this is the third time they
have put me by as dead. When was
Is I was laid out three days, and
similar thing happened when / was
a small child, but I do not remember
anything about that except what my
| mother told me-
Prepared Herself for Burial. "a
Mrs. Holden was supposed to have
died at CLOCK Monday morning and
few minutes before that hour she told
her husband she felt she was going
While he was temporarily absent she,
by supreme effort, got out of bed and
actually bathed herself in preparation
| for the last services that would have
to be rendered her. 81
An affecting scene occurred when the
husband returned. She was motionless,
but asked him in whisper to kiss her
and give her love and kisses to the
children, who were sleeping in the gar:
ret upstairs.
II thought she was dying" said Mr..
Holden. Her hands were cold and K.
could hardly feel her heart beating.
After time looked at her again and
put my hand on her heart and pulse
/ without feeling any movement. Then
I thought she was dead. She had told
me what she had done to save me trou-
BILE, SO, after washing her face and
i brushing her hair, / put piece of linz
| en- around her head and under her chin.
Then I carried her upstairs, where I.
laid her on mattress and covered her
with a sheet. -
| Left in Icy Room Six Hours.
With the exception of this covering
and her nightdress, the poor woman lay
in the room six hours in the bitter cold.
Undertaken Washington was accom-
panied by an assistant when he called
to measure her body. He was leaning
over the pallid form to take measures.
ments for the coffin when he was star
tied to observe the twitching of an
| eyellO. WIFI an EXCLAMATION OF SUR
prise he placed his hand over the wom-
an g heart, but all was still, not the
slightest pulsation being discernible.
The next instant the twitching was re-
peated in even more pronounced FASH
, ion. Surely there must be life in the
} body. Washington applied friction to
the inanimate body.
r Confined effort brought it's reward.
, Slowly and with trembling uncertainty
I a h. 10.
) cred in CHASTITY fashion, and hand,
l still deathly cold, clutched at his own.
The awe-stricken husband was called,
3 restoratives were administered and the
: woman was carried down stairs.
+ Mrs. Holden went into repeated
: swoons, but they gradually lessened in
duration, and yesterday she was able
v to converse.
: Mrs. Holden, who is good-lookina
i woman of %, has been twice married
and is the mother of two children by
her first husband.