The Prescott daily news., 1908-11-17
A STRANGE CASE OF
 RAISING THE DEAD.
Copyright. 1908, by American Press Asso-
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There is a vacant lot 100 feet front Dy 200 feet deep in the upper part of New York about which nearly a cen tury ago residences were springing m One day in 1S- it was announced that this lot had been bought by man who intended to use it for a livery stable. The proximity of such proper " being undesirable, residents of tho neighborhood clubbed together and bought the property. Two gentlemen invested $1,00O each, forming trust, every investor having the right to nom- mate person to inherit his interest. The property was to be kept intact till but one of these nominees remained alive. This person was to then be- come its owner The nominees were all under one year of age and selected from families remarkable for longev- ity.
 When ninety years had passed but two nominees were living, Gustavus Clough Wyatt and Lydia Ward Selby Mir. Wyatt was ninety-one years of age, Mrs. Selhy ninety-two and half Both were in fairly good health con- sidering their advanced age. Mr. | Wyatt had willed the property in case he should live to secure 1t to his son. Walter Lambert. aged sixty-five. Miss Selby's interest was to go to her great grandniece. Florence Dudley, aged | fourteen.
 Six years later both Mir. Wyatt and Mrs. Selby had experienced great change. In each there remained but the flicker of the last drops of life's burning oil The property which one or the other would own was worth $1,000,O00. Lambert, who would ir- herit if his father should be the sur vivor, was an old curmudgeon whom everybody hated. Florence Dudley was lovely girl with no means whatever and engaged to Travers Trask, a young medical man who proposed to make surgery his speciality.
 | Since the inheritance of million was dependent upon the lives of these two aged people they were kept like plants In q conservatory. The slight est draft of air coming near either one of them was considered of more importance than cyclone elsewhere. Both lived on toast water, and neither was permitted to go out of doors. MT. Wyatt was under the constant care of Dr. Myrtlewood, q young man whose whole time was engaged for the pur- pose by Lambert Mrs. Selby was un- der the care of Dr. Trask, who visited her every day.
 The autumn of 19- was balmy up to the 18th of November, when a blizzard came down that carried off most of those whose lives hung in the balance. Old Mir. Wyatt and old Mrs. Selby both lay dy Ing. Mir. Lambert had spies in the Selby home, and Dr. Trask, who had his fisncees interests in charge, managed to keep himself fairly posted as to the condition of old Wyatt. Each principal was approaching the end of the race, and 1t seemed probable that the winner might survive by only few hours. Dr. Myrtlewood was keep ing old Wyatt up by stimulants, and Dr. Trask was doing the same by Mrs. Selby. Sympathy was entirely with Miss Dudl 7. every one hoping that she would merit.
 At Q o'clock on the morning. of Nov. If, while the storm was still raging, Dr. Trask saw that his patient was sinking Word came that Mir. Wyatt could live but few hours. An hour after this Mrs Selby, despite the eff feet of the most powerful stimulants. passed away Lambert was still alive. Within ten minutes after Mrs. Selby's death the fact was reported to Dr. Myrtlewood, who gave over attempting to longer keep his patient alive, and he died half an hour later.
 Dr. Trask may be said to be on the scouting line of his profession. While student be had witnessed an experi ment which has startled the world. He resolved to repeat 1t. Turning ev- cry one out of the room where Mrs. Selby had died except his intimate friend, Dr. Semester, a graduate of prominent German school of medicine whom he retained for an assistant, he made an incision over the woman's heart. He then inserted his hand and clasped the organ. squeezing ie gently and massaging 1t. This process he kept up for some fifteen minutes. when faint tinge of color appeared in the patients cheeks. pr. Semester placed a mirror under the woman's nostrils and slight moisture appeared on the glass. The massaging continued some ten minutes longer, when the patient opened her eyes.
 Hastily covering the body to the chin pr. Trask summoned every one