The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-04-01

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Il tell you, doctor, the basis OF life
IL electric"
why do you think So doctory'
Among many reasons | will give
you one. Recently laid open the body
Of frog, exposing the heart. which
paralyzed. and 1t ceased to beat. /
applied a current from galvanlc 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 IL
the heart Is recharged with electricity
before decay sets in 1t will recommence
fits beats. and the process Of pulsation
will continue till something Interferes.' .
In other words. beating heart un-
interfered with will beat forever, just
as body launched In q vacuum will
move forever"
Exactly"
"Well, what do You proposeg'
AS soon as the man Is pronounced
dead by the prison surgeon he is TO be
taken down and given to me. in
tend to experiment upon him instead Of
q Freq
Il will willingly be your assistant.
but have no confidence In your sue
cess.
The next day, when Peter Hunt. con
victed on circumstantial evidence of
the murder OF George Stanton, bad
been hanged by the neck until he was
dead. the body was taken to room in
the College OF Physicians and Surgeons.
where DR.. Baker and his assistant. DR..
ArbuckIe were awaiting it, The bear
ers withdrew, the door was locked.
and DIR. Baker made an incision be-
tween two ribs everything the heart.
DR.. Arbuekle then applied the electric
current. while DR.. Baker made sue
cessive pressures On the heart as one
works tie arms of newborn child TO
start respiration. Presently he put his
ear down on the 81 chest
Good" he or TIT beats, but
very slowly"
Arbuckle also listened with astonish-
ment. A faint moan escaped the pa
tent. The current was increased. The
pQtient-or corpse opened his eyes,
closed them. opened them again and
rolled them wildly. Or. 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 a beat second:
then It 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was withdrawn entirely.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
the minute; then the patient asked
where be was.
The next morning. long before day
Iiglt. Peter Hunt was taken BY the two
physicians from the college to road
leading from the town where be 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 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
il had come from punchfon bis own
nose given him by Stanton. Hunts de-
tenders used every means to end the
man sunpoged to have been murdered.
but failed. Hunt knew a place where
stanton would likely be found. but he
believed that bis enemy knew that he
GIunt, was being tried for murder and
Would keep in hiding till after conylc-
tim.
hunt after leaving the doctors set
out for the place whore he believed
stannn would 30 us soon as no heard
that Ifs enemy had been hanged. the
reasonwh Hunt felt confident Of this
was hesause together they had deposit
M considerable plumber there the dl-
vision (Which they could never aFree
upon. Tie reason Hunt surmised that
~ M paftne in crime would remain u
Sialng WA that after Hunts hanging
IRE. "a ss' ~ '17
j, Hunt or renlng after dark visited
Sr. pace Were the swag vas
haaa 49, under an oak tree TINT nna
sSs n split W bolt Of lightning 5e
"~s''aea The sound and found that