The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-03-28
A Strange Case.

| of a frog. exposing the heart, which
| | paralyZed, and 1t ceased to beat I
applied current from a galvanic bat
| terry, and the pulsations recommended.
paralyzed 1t again and this time wait
| ed ten minutes before applying the cur
| rent, but got the same result. | kept
| adding to the time till proved that lf
| the heart Is recharged with electricity
| before decay sets in il will recommence
| Its beats, and the process Of pulsatiOn
will continue till something iuterferes" !"
'In other words, beating heart un-
| interfered with will beat forever, lust
as body launched in a vacuum Will
| move forever"
Exactly"
"Well, what do you proposeT
"As soon as the man is pronounced
dead by the prison surgeon lie Is TO be
| taken down and given TO me. in
tend to experiment upon him instead of
frog"
Il will willingly be your assistant
but | have no confidence in your sue
| cess"
The next day, when Peter Hunt, con
victed on circumstantia evidence Of
| the murder of George Stanton, had
| been hanged by the neck until he was
| dead the body was taken 20 room in
the College of Physicians and Surgeons.
where DIR. Baker and his assistant DR.
| Arbuckle were awaiting 1t. The bear
| ers withdrew, the door was locked
and Dr. Baker made an inclsion be-
tween two ribs everything the heart
| DR.. Arbuckle then applied the electric
| current, while DR.. Baker made sue
cessive pressures on the heart as one
| works the arms of a newborn child to
| start respiration. Presently he put his
ear down on the subjects chest.
| "Goodw he exclaimed. at beats, but
very slowly"
Arbuckle also listened with astonlsh-
ment \ faint moan escaped the pa
| tient. The current was increased The
| patient-or corpse-opened his eyes
closed them, opened them again and
rolled them wildly. Dr. Baker took
/ his wrist in his fingers and found the
pulse to be about thirty TO the minute
The current was again doubled twice,
] with the final result Of beat a second: :
| then 1t ran up rapidly, and the current
was gradually reduced till at last II
| was withdrawn entirely. Meanwhile
| the pulse had settled at about eighty to
| where he was
The next morning, long before day
| light, Peter Hunt was taken by the two
| physicians from the college to n road
| leading from the town where he had
been hanged There lie parted with
| them, having promised that he would
| send daily reports TO Dr. Baker as to
his condition.
The occasion of Hunts hanging was
this: There had been n long and bitter
enmity between him and George stan
| ton. fellow criminal. A quarrel had
occurred one night, and the next morn
| Ing Stanton was not to be found Blood
was discovered on Hunts clothing, but
| 1t had come from punch on his own
nose given him by Stanton. Hunts de-
| tenders used every means 10 find the
man supposed to have been murdered.
but failed. Hunt knew place where
| Stanton would likely be found. but he
believed that his enemy knew that he
QIunb was being tried for murder and
would keep in hiding till after conyic-
| ton.
| Hunt after leaving the doctors set
out for the place where he believed
Stanton would go as soon as he heard
] that his enemy had been hanged The
| reason why Hunt felt confident Of this
was because together they had deposit
| ed considerable plumber there. the dl-
vision of which they could never agree
upon. The reason Hunt surmsed that
! his partner In crime would remain in
| hiding was that after Hunts hanging
Stanton would get all this hidden treas
ure.
Hunt one evening after dark visited
the place where the "swag' was
buried under an oak tree that had
been split by bolt OF lightning. He
| examined the ground and found that
| 1t had not been disturbed. Then he
| camped at the edge of Il wood a few
hundred yards away where he could
watch He slept with one eye open
during the day and with both open
during the night
II was at Il. m Of the third day
after his arrival that he saw sudden
| fash OF match under the blasted
tree, A full moon was hidden under a
cloud, but In Il few minutes the cloud
rolled away, Suddenly Stanton, dig
glng at the foot or the tree, looked up
| ANA saw standing before him the man
who had been banged
Hunt was still very pale, and the
moonlight made him appear paler. Be
sides, clotted blood stood under the
skin where the hangman's moose had
pressed against his neck Stanton
spoke never n word, but looked at him
with eyes that appeared more dead
than alive. Stanton threw his arms
aloft, with a moan, and fell uncon-
| sclous.
Every day for -four days DR.. Baker
| continued TO receive reports from
Hunt, who wrote that his heart "dut.
! tered" a great deal, He didn't seem
| 70 recover from the shock. The last
| report was written on the fourth day
| a rtap tln bonpiuu II said that bn had