A. Young Lady Buried Alive.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 43, 29 March 1884, Page 5

A. Young Lady Buried Alive.

Chicago, February B,— The "Tribune's" Dayton (0.) special of February 7th says ; A sensation has been created here by the discovery of the fact that Mits Anna Hockwalt, a young woman of high social standing, who was supposed to have died suddenly on January 10th, was buried alive. The horrible truth was discovered a few days ago, and since then it has been the talk of the city. The circumstances of Miss Hocl™ alt's death were peculiar. It occurred on the morning of the marriage of her brother to Miss Emma Schmind, at the Emanuel Church. Shortly before six o'clock the young lady was dressing for the nuptials and had gone into the kitchen. A few_ moments afterwards she was found sitting in a chair, with her head reclining against the wall, apparently lifeless. Medical aid M r as summoned, and Dr Jewett, j after an examination, pronounced her dead. Mass was being read at the time in the church, and it was proposed to postpone the wedding, but Father Hahne thought it best to continue and the wedding was consummated in gloom and by a low mas?. An examination showed that Anna was of an excitable temperament, nervous and afflicted with sympathetic palpitation of the heart, and Dr. Jewett thought this caused her death. On the following day the girl was interred in Woodland Cemetery. The friends of Miss Hock wait could notforget tho terrible impression made by her death, and several ladies observed that her ears bore a remarkably natural colour, and could not dispel the idea that she was not dead. They conveyed their opinion to Anna's parents, and the thought preyed on them so that the body was taken from the grave. When the coffin was opened it was discovered that the supposed inanimate body had turned upon its right side, the hair of the head had been torn out in handfuls, and the flesh of the fingers had been bitten from the bones. The body was reinterred and efforts made to conceal the case.