ALIVE IN HER COFFIN.

Bush Advocate, Volume I, Issue 41, 9 August 1888, Page 2

ALIVE IN HER COFFIN.

-+~ ■ - --; «• ■ STBANGE ItESTOKATION TO LIFE OF A YOUNG WOMAN^ A Memphis despatch to the dncinnati Enquirer states :-— MrsDioie Webb keeps a grocery of BealeStreet, and is known to hundreds of people. Two years ago John Webb, a son of Mrs Webb, married Sarah Kelly, a remarkably pretty girl, to whom the mother-in-law became greatly attached. Before the first year of. their married life had passed. Mrs Webb, jun., became stricken with consumption. About a month ago the young lady became .anxious to visit her parents in Henderson . County. A« telegram announced her death, and the husband started for the remains. Three days later ho returned with the corpse. The mother-in-law pleaded so hard fo? a sight of the dead I woman, it. was decided to open the coffin. While looking at the placid face Mrs Webb became almost paralysed with fright at beholding the eyelids of the dead woman slowly open. Mrs Webb was unable to utter a sound. Finally she fell upon a chair nearby, but her horror was only increased when the supposed corpse slowly sat upright and in an almost inaudible voice said, "Oh, where am I?" At this the weeping woman screamed. Friends who rushed into the room were almost paralysed at the sight. One, bolder than the others, returned and spoke to the woman who asked to be laid on the bed. Hastily she was taken from the ooffin and tenderly cared for. • The day following she, related, as her strength permitted, a wonderful story. She was conscious of all that occurred, and did not lose consciousness until she was put aboard the train for Memphis. Soon after being placed in her mother-in-law's home she regained consciousness. A supreme effort was made to speak while her -mother-in-law was* looking at her, and in that instant, while returning to life, she again lost track of she surroundings, which caused her to ask wherie she was. Mrs Webb lived a number, of days, when she again apparently died. The doctor pronounced her dead; and she was once more placed in the coffin from which she had been taken, and buried. '