Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-03-19

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1lness that intensified as the weeks
passed, It sometimes left him In a
stupor amounting almost to semi
paralysis. The father and others urged
him to go elsewhere for his health
| but the love his mother gave him
made him remain even to martyrdom
II necessary. These spells would last
4 for hours occasionally, with the Pc
culiarity that while under their influ-
ence he knew everything passing within
his hearing, but he was totally unable
to move a muscle. He kept thinking
he would become acclimated after "a
while, but he was mistaken. they re-
CURED with increasing frequency and
lasted longer. One of these attacks,
harder than the others, took him one
evening at a meeting he was conduct
/ ing, and they carried him to his room
to await his return to activity il had
not passed by midnight. They watched
him until morning, but he was the
same. Twenty four hours passed and
he was still motionless; no sign Of
Fife was discoverable to the silent
company who sorrowed for him and
with the stricken father. Another day
went by and there was as yet no in
dication of life. although the father
was strong in his insistence that the
SON was alive.
He Mas alive and conscious Of all
that passed, but as usual unable TO
move.
i BY the company supposed to he
dead and SO pronounced by their phys
ican, who hurriedly and perfunctoriiy
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less Of subdued excitement so long as
the funeral was delayed So the Off
Gals ordered him buried In vain the
friends protested and asked and plead
ed for Just one more days grace and
delay. The powers were obdurate. 1t
must proceed.
AS yet the body had not been dressed
for the burial, but lay motionless as
when life apparently ceased Now IL
was washed, dressed and placed in the
casket. The cortege passed to the
cemetery and the helpless father saw
what he believed to be his living son
consigned to the grave.
That night a company of medical
students from a neighboring city UNI
earthed the living corpse, They had
for some time been watching for the
body Of one who had not become ema-
fciated by the revages Of disease, or
Z mangled BY an accidental violent death.
Here was their opportunity They hur-
ried the body quickly into the wagon
and speeded up the horses; it was
roughly handled. AS yet he WAS un-
! able 20 move a finger or TO utter 4
sound, Usually bodies thus filched are
dumped into vat of brine to await
: the pleasure of the dissoctors. Rod
erick knew that, too. This time they
stabbed the body and prepared to make
some preliminary cuts.
$ AZ the first drop OF blood drawn.
a circulation began and life was exhib-
$ tied by scream from the supposed
corpse. It was a happy moment for
him. Incontinently the students fled
d and told the weird story. Some per
sons sleeping in the building heard the
e noise and ventured in they found the
resuscitating man sitting up laughing
: and preparing to move.
Detailing his story he said the agony
I of the preparation was indesoribanle:
g the itemized preparation, washing, lay
n ing out encoffining, going to the cem-
:. etery, the awful but unrealized hope
{ that he could move, groan or do some-
T thing TO attract attention. all ware ter
5 rifyingly dizzying, insanifylng, un-
d speakable, awful The climax of the
experience was reached when the cof-
e fin was lowered, the dismal grating OF
8 the death box as II touched and rubbed
the sides or the grave, the Withdrawn ing
9 of the ropes that lowered It; the fas-
G tening Of the cover OF the outer box
! lid, the circulating, yelling horror Of
: the awfulness ais the clods began to
fail on IL! Hope and consciousness
fled.
The next thing that attracted his at
tention Was the sound of the diggers
He finally understood the meaning Of
the sounds. but could not tell as yet if
they were digging into bis grave or
making a new one by his side Soon
5 they touched the lid Of MS COFFIN and
= his heart almost leaped AS he thought.
!, but could not move. He tried 10 cry
out, but could not It was doubtless
e we'll that he could not, as the diggers
would likely have become frightened
and left him really to perish at last.
I Soon they were tearing him roughly
: from the grave. His grave How
9 queer. Thank God, Air. human hands.
a splash of rain--but what were they
I going to do? He imagined they we're
: medical students, and was he rescued
: from on form OF death for another
equally horrible2
Arrived, they threw him onto the
slab. and the murderous (but in this
e case -giving) scalpel was inserted
: into his flesh-and he yelled