Buried Alive.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 109, 13 April 1885, Page 4

Buried Alive.

A New York cable states that Mary Cox, a well-known and popular young lady, who lived near the mouth of the Little Cay on River, was taken violently ill. The physician decided she was suffering from neuralgia of the stomach, and prescribed morphia. The dose was administered at once, and another left with instructions to give it m twentyfour hours. For some reason the second dose was given m a very short time. An hour or two afterwards the death of Miss Cox was announced. Two days later the body was buried. At the funeral one lady insisted that Miss Cox was not dead, and begged that a physician be sent for. That night the dogs of a man living near the graveyard stationed themselves near the tomb and kept up a persistent howling. Next day the grave was opened, and to the horror of all it was found that the girl had been buried alive. The lining was torn from the sides of the coffin, and the pillow was m shreds. The poor girl had literally stripped the clothes from her body. Her arms and hands were torn and bleeding, her lips bitten through, and handfuls of hair were torn from her head. The girl had come to life arid evidently made a fearful struggle to escape. The awful affair fills the community with horror.