EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR IN CORNWALL.

Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue XVII, 24 May 1879, Page 1

EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR IN CORNWALL.

A strange affair has just happened at Linkishorne, Cornwall. William Seymour, a miner, was found dead in Phcenix Mine. It was supposed he had died in a fit, and a verdict to that effect was returned at the coroner's inquest. He was interred at the burial ground of Darley Chapel. A neighbor of the deceased the next night dreamed that a gentleman in a carriage and pair had driven up to the house of the mother of the deceased and said that her son was not dead, but had been buried alive. This dream being noised abroad, the next night seven or eight men went to the graveyard, dug up the coffin, and carried it to a chapel. They unscrewed the coffin-lid, and there was the body of their comrade apparently still living and breathing. So convinced were they of this that they sat him up, and while Borne attempted to revive him by stimulants and friction, others ran off to the nearest surgeon, two miles distant. The surgeon, Mr. Newsam, soon arrived, and examined the body amid great excitement, and then staged that the man was dead, and had been dead for some days. Mr. Newsam rebuked the men for their folly, and the body was then quickly reinterred ; but the matter has excited much commotion.