Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-04-22

AS soon as the man is pronounced
dead by the prison surgeon lie is to be
taken down and given to me. l in
tend to experiment upon him instead OF
frog
II will willingly be your assistant.
but l have no confidence in your sue
cess" III
The next day. when Peter Hunt. con
victed on circumstantial evidence OF
the murder of George Stanton, had
been hanged by TIE neck until he was
dead, the body was taken to a room in
the College Of Physicians and Surgeons,
where DR.. Baker and his assistant. Dr.
/ Arbuckle We're awaiting it. The bear
ers withdrew. the door was locked,
and Dr.. Baker made an incision be
tween two ribs everything the heart
Dr. Arbuckle then applied the electric
current, While DR. Baker made sue
cesslve presSures on the heart as one
works the arms OF 4 newborn child to
start respiration. Presently he put hi;
ear down on the subjects chest.
"Good.' he exclaimed. ut beats. but
very slowly"
Arbuckle also listened with astonist-
| ment. \ faint moan escaped the pa
| tent The current was Increased. The
natlcnt-or corpSe-opened his eyes.
closed them. opened them again ana
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 Il beat second:
then it ran UP rapidly. and the current
was gradually reduced till at last it
was withdrawn entirely. Meanwhile
the pulse hal settled at about eighty to
the minute; then the patient asked
| where he was.
The next morning, long before day
light Peter Hunt was taken by the two
physicians from the college to a road
leading from the town where he had
! been hanged. There he 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 q long ana bittel.
cnmity between him and George Still
ton, fellow criminal. \ quarrel had
| occurred one night. and the next norn-
ing Stanton was not to he found. Blood
was discovered Oh Hunts clothing. bat
it had come from Il punch on his own
| nose given him by StaN.On Hunts de-
Tenders used every means to find the
man supposed to have boon murdered.
but failed. Hunt knew place where
Stanton would likely be found, but he
believed that his enemy knew that he
| HIunt 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 60 rs soon IS 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 Gi-
| vision Of Which they could never agree
upon The reason Hunt sul2nised 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 Il bolt Of lightning He
examined the ground and found that
it had not been disturbed. Then he
camped at the edge Of q wood a few
| hl)r;lunI ol.Ic i,o =
watch. He slept with one eye open
during the day and with both open
during the night
1t was at = a. N. OF the third day
after his arrival that he saw a Sudden
flash of 4 match under the blasted
tree. \ full moon WAS hidden under a
cloud. but in q few minutes the cloud
rolled away Suddenly Stanton, dig.
ging at the foot Of the tree, looked I'D
and saw standing before him the man
who had been hanged.
Hunt was still very nale. and the
moonlight made him appear paIer. Be
sides, clotteu blood stood under The
skin where the haDgNan's moose had
pressed against his neck. Stanton
spoke never a word. bnt looked at him
with eyes that appeared more dead
than alive. Stanton threw his arms
aloft with a moan. and fell uncon-
sCOus.
Every day for four days Dr.. Baker
continued to receive reports from
Hunt, who wrote that his heart "nnt-
tered a great deal lie didn't seen!
to recover from the shock The last
report was written on the fourth day
after the hanging. It said that he had
been through painful! experience the
night before. and his heart was fail
ing He knew he was doomed.
One morning Drs. Baker and Ar
buckle received each Il note from the
cashier of a bank stating that con-
siderable sum Of money had been de-
posted by 4 strange man to their
credit. NELLIE EDNA CUR':IS
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