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PREMATURE BURIAL.Premature burial is usually regarded in this country as one of the most improbable of occurrences , —and possibly it is. If, however, we are to credit I the statements in a little book—u Premature Burial, by Franz Hartmann, M. D. ”—just issuei by Messrs. Swani Sonnenschein and Co., such cases are not so rare in other countries as may be supposed. George C. Warren, of Kansas City, reports the following:•* During the terrible scourge of cholera which swept over America and Europe in the year 1860, my grandfather and grandmother fled from Louisville, Ky., to a small place, the home of relatives, at Hopkinsville, Kv., about 25 miles away. However, the scourge pursued them, and both died aud were Jburied. Some months afterwards the coffins were disinterred for the purpose of transferring the bodies to Louisville, and it was found that my grandmother had turned over on her side, and there- were evidences of a short struggle.” American stories of this kind are not altogether to be trusted. But Dr. Hartmann draws his examples from other parts of the world as well. “At Weis (Austria) a woman was drowned in a river and her body recovered. On the day of her funeral, when the bearers arrived to take the body away, they were furiously attacked by the family dog. In their fright they dropped the coffin, but the shock revived the woman, who came to herself and lived for a long time afterwards in good health.”CHARLES KEAX AS HAMLET.
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London Mid Surrey Times and General Advertiser
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Feb 29, 1896
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