A WOMAN BURIED ALIYE.

Evening Star, Issue 9771, 30 July 1895, Page 4

A WOMAN BURIED ALIYE.

A telegram received from Annecy gives the details of a horrible affair which took place recently at Doussard, a village on the shore of Lake Annecy, in the Upper Savoy. A woman who was believed to have died the day before was being buried, when the gravedigger, who was engaged in filling up the grave, distinctly heard knocking coming from the coffin. He called a man who was working near, and he came and listened, and heard the knocking also. It was then about nine o’clock iu the morning. The knocking continued, and they listened for about half an hour, when it occurred to one of them that they ought to do something, so they went to inform the local authorities. The cure of the village was the first to arrive on the scene, but as no one had any authority to exhume the body the coffin was not taken up. All that was done was to bore some holes in the lid with a drill, in such a way as to admit of air. By mid-day all the necessary formalities had been gone through, and it was decided at last to open the coffin. This was done, but whether the unfortunate woman was still alive at this time is doubtful. Some say that they distinctly saw her eyes open, but when, at halfpast six, a doctor was consulted, the woman was dead, and the doctor declared that death had nob taken place more than five or six hours before.