The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-03-18
A Singular Case of
Resurrection
By F. A. Mitchell

Ian hfCotASdJOIS VI TIE DUChclelleI
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 I'm 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
have done in keeping persons alive in
a comatose condition for many years is
true these Rockefellers or scientific
feilers or whatever they are have yet
much to learn from an antique and ap
parently u~ndeveloped civilization.
There is Il story going the rounds
among the undergraduates of Il certain
university which. if it 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
it is well known that he was born with
certain mental powers. Il certain SUI.
pernatural knowledge of things on
which many Il 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 e to Professor Gereau with a
yellow bit of paper on which was writ
ten in old English style:
This is the body of William .ArDuckle,
private in his majesty's TIL foot. Cap
tured in the patriot lines with maps show
ing our Notifications on the upper part of
Manhattan Island. He was condemned
for a spy. An Indian serving with the
same regiment-he had Joined 1t 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 will be able to effect a
resurrection
Young ~StockDridge 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 a man in British uniform
of a former period The paper had
beer found in the lead coffin i'm which
the body had been buried.
Gereau-mind you. | don't vouch for
this-aI1anged with the student to
bring the find TO the laboratory. which
at the time vas closed on accoun 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 Il
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. lie gives as q fundamental
principle that the Indian knew how to
suspend-not kill-the action of the
heart. and Gcreau 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 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 1870 years. he would die within IA
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
and Surgeons for II 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 ,NeratiOn. but half n bottle
of Irish whisky brought him round
The liver WAS next tackled. and half of
ii repaired There were other parts
to he substituted. but those mentioned
were the principal requirements
These operations required several
hours. and another hour passed before
Private .Arbuckle spoke. Then he
opened his eyes and cried out in a
voice that seemed to com through dry
leather
Corporal of the guard
Gereau was delighted II looked a.
if h might save his patient. for while
the man had doubtless been deanimat-
ed in good health his being brought
back To consciousness WAS not only a
difficult matter. but II dangerous me.
There are several versions of the resi-
of the story Some say that Arbuckle
was sufficiently restored 10 remember
and speak of his expected execution
Others aver hat Gereau. finding his