Year: 1878

Now, was nearer the wagon in
which the corpse was laid than the
grave was. 1t was q thought and .
deed. Ispraug from my hiding place,
leaped into the wagon, screamed IS
have heard pantters scream in the
mountains. and whipped of at gallop.
took the girl to vacant house I own
in the city. and Immediately went for q
physician in whom I could con fide.
He pronounced the girl dead. at first
sight. but on listning be said her hear,
beat slowly, and that he could smell
the odor of chloroform. told him all
the circumstances that happened at the
grave. except the shooting Of the China.
man (which. on account Of tie respect
ability Of the parties concerned, have
concluded, from taotives of policy, ,3ot to
divnlge). whereupon be pronounced her
nearly dead of debility, and still under
the influence of the narcotic. But, TO
hasten my story. after spplying the
strongest stimulants. she finally recov.
cred sufficiently for me to leave her for
the present. I stripped tho horse Of
his harness and rode at furious rate
back to Lone Mountain. then mounted
my saddled horse and returned. leading
the other at the same unmitieated
vslocity. I then hsrnessed the horse
tot be wagon again, drove few blocks
left him tied to Q lamp post, and have
not heard of him or his owner since.
l took my own horse back to the stable
n nd hnn ~ hn I'D
girl. By this time she was able to
speak in an incoherent manner. I
went to restaurant and got some tea
and toast, and . mutton chop. and be-
fore daylight Of the 9Th had the salts
faction of seeing the poor child almost
completely restored She wa" still
feeble; but had no recollection If any.
thing but having been sick.


To-day have told her the whole
story. Of which cannot make her
believe q word, excpt that she owes her
restoration to con nsciousness to mine and
the doctors attention. She 10 now re-
siding with my aunt. on Stockton
street, where the poor, greatful girl
is surrounded with all that 10 needed to
make her forget her passt misery and
wretched life.


If the doctors want any more sub
jects. let them be careful to take real
bona fide dead bodies. and not kill
them temporarily, 80 as to dissect them
alive. This was no doubt an arranged
thing. 1t has now become the rage In
the medical schools to demonstrate
physiology on the living animal. 1t is
a very easy thing for any one who
knows how, to put one in state re-
scmbling death, and then have the one
thus fixed. buried. taken up again in
less than fifteen hours from the time
of burial. and after this the living dis
section goes on oil right under chloro-
form. When the body is completely
cut in shreds. so that the machinery of
life is about used up, they just clip the
spinal cord close up to the brain. and
there is an end of all. and the subject
will never know bnt that he or she has
been dead during the whole dissection.
After death, instead Of putting the cut
up body il the double rhomb. like
others. they drop it into the " dead
we'll" turn barrel over it. and throw
little dirt ON the barrel bottom,
which is now ready for Q successor.


Curiosity about the names Of the
perpetrators of this tragedy will be per-
fectly unayailing. for they will never be
divulged for any earthly consideration.
The denouwsnt awaits tie end Of ell
things. when He. whose right it is.
shall Judge and punish or reward
whomsoever He shall please.