The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-03-04
A Singular Case of
Resurrection
By F. A. Mitchell

!
/ The investigators of the Rockefeller
institute may be very proud of them
selves. Indeed, they have reason TO
be. They have substituted live parts
OF the human body for dead parts; they
hS~e set heart substance beating out
side its proper place in a mans breast
If they keep on they may in time make
a man out Of parts of other men. But
If the stories OF what Indian fakirs
4 have done in keeping persons alive in
/ Il comatoSe condition for many years Is
true these Rockefellers or scientific
fellers or whatever they are have yet
much to learn from an antique and ap-
! parently undevelOped civilization
There is story going the rounds
/ among the undergraduates of certain
university which, if it can be Substan-
tiated, puts the modern scientific inves-
! ugator TO shame. Arnold Gereau, as
sistant professor of chemistry-he has
! charge of the laboratOry-is one OF
/ those phenomena who spring up once
! in century. He is very young, and
| it IS well known that he was born with
! certain mental powers, Il certain SUI
! pernatural knowledge OF things ON
which many man has studied for a
| lifetime without making any progress
| whatever.
| Wilbur Stockbridge, a member OF
the class of 10, so the story goes. one
! day went to Professor Gereau with a
yellow bit Of paper on which was writ
ten in old English style:
This is the body OF William Arbuckle.
! private in his majesty's -th foot. Cap
| tured In the patriot lines with maps show
| ing our fortifcations on the upper part of
Manhattan Island. He was condemned
| for spy. An Indian serving with the
same regiment-he had joined II at Snga-
! pore-proposed to General Washington 10
put the man to sleep for an indefinite peri
cd instead OF executing him. The general,
who was averse 10 the execution, consent
| ed, and Arbuckle was turned over to the
Indian, who claims that any time after
! fifty or even a hundred years life will
still be in the body. But not one man I'm
many millions will be able to effect a
resurrection.
Young Stockbridge told the professor
that I'm excavating for building pur-
poses on the upper part Of Manhattan
Island on property owned by his family
a tomb had been discovered containing
the body of man in British uniform
Of a former period. The paper had
been found in the lead coffin in which
the body had been buried
Gereau-mind you, don't vouch for
this-arTanged with the student to
bring the find to the laboratory, which
! at the time was closed on account OF
! the spring recess and would therefore
be at the professors individual dis
| posal. No one has attempted TO give
the process by which Gereau manipu-
lated the remains of Private ArBuckle,
but it is claimed that he effected a
resurrection. The professor AYERS that
he worked ON lines which are being
! followed by modern scientific investi-
! gators. He must have had an inkling
of the method by which animation
was suspended by the Indian or he
would not have been able to restore
it by reverse action, which, he says,
he applied. He gives as fundamental
principle that the Indian knew how to
| suspend-not kill-the action of the
heart, and Gereau restored the pulsa-
tons, which are the basis OF animal
life.
Whether the story is true or false
there is one part of it that fits in with
modern scientific investigation. 1t is
said that Gereau found that certain
members of the body had suffered
from the hong suspension OF their func-
tions. The resurrected man showed
signs of decay, and the professor fear
ed that, though he had remained in an
ordinary condition of health for more
than 100 years, he would die within
few hours after resurrection.
A test was begun Of different
and the first tested-the
showed decay. Gereau
phoned to the COLES
and Surgeons for
neys and, removir
introduced the n,
for some time
under the op
OF Irish "
The liver
1t replac
to be g.
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