Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-03-27 | Page 5 | Opened Her Eyes at the Proper Moment

OPENED HER EYES AT ATTHE ATTHE THE PROPER MOMENT Uncanny Experience of a British Woman Who Came Near Being Buried Alive Special S ial Cable to London March 26 The many ac accounts accounts accounts counts of premature interment which were related at a recent meeting of the Association for the Prevention of Pre Premature Premature Premature mature Burial held In this city is re responsible responsible for a story of a a Bournemouth lady of an uncanny ordeal ord al through which she passed fifty years ears ago I Fifty years ears ago said the lady my grave was dug In Hadlow church in Kent I had been be n staying with cousins who lived at a country house not DOt far from Tonbridge During our play one of the boys kicked me rue accidentally on the head and this was the beginning of an illness during which XI was power powerless powerless powerless less to speak or move It was a kind of brain paralysis I suppose not so well understood fifty years ago as now Both the local doctor and a London specialist regarded my ease case as hopeless hopel s Although unable ta speak or to move even to flicker an eyelid I was perfect perfectly ly conscious of their presence and of all they said sald concerning my case My father was very ver ill at the time and later I J knew that he Was Wats s dead deat dea and that the undertakers were in the house But I could make no sign But that awful moment the horror of ot which is still with me came when my nurse began to lay me out for the grave I was conscious of everything every thing of the shroud and the bandages she was putting round my face I heard the nurse say to my mother who had come cometo cometo cometo to take a last look at me She has been dead for hours she is quite cold As my mother bent down to look at atme atme atme me I opened my m eyes All I remember remembers Is s seeing her fall backwards and then I passed into unconsciousness The next thing I can an recall is the nurse put putting putting putting ting Jelly into my mouth