The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-02-05
A Singular Case Of
Resurrection
BY r. 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
have set heart substance beating out
side its proper place in mans breast.
If they keep on they may in time make
man cut of parts of other men. But
If the stories of what Indian fakirs
have done in keeping persons alive in
n 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 APP
parently undeveloped civilization.
There is a story going the rounds
among the undergraduates of certain
university which, If 1t can be substan-
tiated, puts the modern scientific inves-
tigator 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 a century. He is very young, and
1t is well known that he was born with
certain mental powers, certain su-
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
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 Notifications on the upper part of
Manhattan Island He was condemned
for spy An Indian serving with the
same regiment-he had Joined II at Singa-
pore-proposed to General Washington to
put the man TO sleep for an indefinite peri
cd instead of executing him. The general.
who was averse to 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 In
many millions viii be able TO effect
resurrection. 1
Young Stockbridge told the professor |
that in 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 arranged 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 linking
OF the method by which animation
was suspended by the Indian or he
would not have been able to restore
1t by reverse action, which. he says,
he applied. He gives as fundamental
principle IDdL tHe lDuldu hutW uOW 10
suspend-not kill-the action of the
heart, and Gereau restored the pulsa-
lions, 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 long suspension of their func-
lions. 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 a
few hours after resurrection.
A test was begun Of different organs,
and the first tested-the kidneys
showed decay. Gereau at once tele-
phoned TO the College OF Physicians I
and Surgeons for a pair of sound kid.
neys and, removing the ones affected,
introduced the new ones. He supposed
for some time that Arbuckle had died
under the operation, but half bottle I
81 Irish whisky brought him round z
The liver was next tackled, and half Of
L replaced There were other parts =
10 be substituted. but those mentioned '
we're the principal requirements. p