A Corpse Coming to Life.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 105, 17 May 1883, Page 3

A Corpse Coming to Life.

The question as to whether premature burials of living pprsous are not more common than is generally imagined has frequently been discussed (says the St. James' Gazette), and an "incident reported in one of the New York pnpers is not calculated to relieve anxiety on this point. Mrs W. L. Pett.it (wife of the teller ofthe First National Bank at Port Wayne) apparently died, and the undertaker took charge of what were supposed to be her remaius. Arrangements were made tor the funeral, and watchers were sitting with the body. At ten o' clock at night the watchers started to their feet in alarm on hearing a faint sigh, which thrilled through the room. It proceed from Mrs Pettit, wbo a moment later was seen sitting up with her eyes open and asking in an audible whisper lor her husband. The attendants were first speechless with wonder, and then screamed with excitement. Their screams brought V.r Pettit to the room in haste, and "with joy unspeakable he clasped again his living wife in his arms." The doctor was sent for, and could not believe his eyes at beholding living what in his exact medical science he had declared dead. His position was in fact an awkward one; but he seems to have made the best of the situation, for he lt administered restoratives," and Mrs Pettit, from latest accounts, '* was never better."