BROUGHT TO LIFE.
There was a young man residing in Wake County (United States), by the 5 name of Fitzgerald, Receiving information that hia mother was lving at the i point of death and wished to speak with i him, ho made immediate haste. His horse became exhausted when he arrived at the Catawba river. He applied for a fresh horse. By contract to return it in 1 a special time he obtained one, leaving ' hia own until his return, He found his f mother Btill alive and conversed with her. ) Sho soon died and was buried, and he, . remembering his appointed time to return t his horse beiug behind time, found a , State warrant against him for horse §t#il-, ' ing, was arrested, committed' to'- gaol in' ' Statesville, was prosecuted with all ' hatred, malice and vengeance,' and ■ executed by hanging, and pronounced dead. His friends obtained hia,body
from the gibbet, carried it a short distance from Statesvillo to water, applied the proper remedies, restored tho body to life, and returned with it to Tennessee. He there married and raised au interesting family, highly intelligent, wealthy, honest and tapectable, ' -
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2451, 13 November 1886, Page 2
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188BROUGHT TO LIFE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2451, 13 November 1886, Page 2
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