A SUPPOSED CORPSE COME TO LIFE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3640, 13 March 1883, Page 4

A SUPPOSED CORPSE COME TO LIFE.

Tho question as to whether premature burials of living persons 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 papers is not calculated to relieve anxiety on this point. Mrs W. L. Pettit, wife of the teller of the First National Bank at Port Wayne, apparently died, and the undertaker took charge of what was supposed to be her remains. Arrangements were made for the funeral, and watchers were sitting with tho body. At 10 o'clock at night the watchers started to their feet in alarm on hearing a faint sigh, which thrilled through the room. It proceeded from MrsPettit, who a moment later was seen sitting ap with her eyes open and asking in an audible whisper for her husband. The attendants were first speechless with wonder, and then screamed with excitement. Their screams brought Mr 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 ono ; but be seems to have made the best of the situation, for he "administered restoratives," and MrsPettit, by latest accounts, " was never better in her life."