Coming Back to Life.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 111, 5 April 1884, Page 3

Coming Back to Life.

; •■' !Ln r ektf«6rdinar3r case of retival of M« »dppoaed di|a4rj»erßon : has just occurrrt at Leed^;. Tbe supposed person, irboj»« .been th« subject of this 'Sperience, !•'.> girl of sixteep, t named Emma Whiifcliead, the Afoghteir of ; « ttfdow living ' ii ! 10, Iriddfttrial street, 'Burinaritoft^ Leeda. The girl has been nufferiog from consaoiptioni- for iiome timt, and aboct two monthi ago .became io i^.thtt she had to give up her employment as mkchiniat a|i M.esßrs Gaunt ; Mid BacUoh's Cap Wprksj Grace«.street, «bd take to bed. She was. attended 'by Dr. Higgiiw, Of Beckett Btreet, whb LeW out 'little orW hope of her recovery, and she gradually «nk until about fonr.o'clo'ctrf in -the iJternopn, wheur.s^e appeared 'to breathe hei last. No ■ *gn «f . life could b» detected, and a person was called m .to wash *n4 lay out" the body, which was ' ' done. ' Later the undertaker was sent for, 1 attdihß^ffieasur^mentß taken' for the coffin, 'and other nrrangementa iwere; made: : fat- the interment, >- L«te the same *-nkht wbHttithe i mother a»d the; norse iwero m, the kitch#n,they weraihrow,ti/ to. violent consternation by hearing a voice cry freeij, * Mother,' and aatnthoninjf cour^ ageU a&a the'staiw tney, fotftid ;the •nppogecl dead girl standing m: the Wbdr--way ofh»r dressed^ as- she hkd been laid oat. On seeing them she wid, •Oh, moa»er,,ietoh me down; 1 fee', so ,16014,'. ..Without *«lUng : her .wjiat had . happened, the. women peraßaded her to *<;• ' turn to bed, and! at once summoned J)t , ffig^n*jVho' applied reßforativer* to t?he -' fniritinggtrirShe soorirecovered canscionshrti.atid has not had Bny relapse'.butshewas recently m an exceedingly weak condition, : which renders her recovery highly impro-, . hable, She of course remains m lgnor- .. tiicg^f.thp.dreadfoi incident. ' . °