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Show Bed Cheeks In Death. Elizabeth Hering, daughter of August Bering, a farmer living near Hackensack, died Friday and was buried. The neighbors neigh-bors insisted that the girl was buried alive because a glow had been detected in ber cheeks as she lay in the coffin, Hering was so importuned that the body was exhumed, and is now lying in the receiving vault of the New York cemetery, ceme-tery, where crowds of people beaiege the superintendent for permission to see the remains. The glow on the cheeks is ascribed to washing the face in soap and water after it had been treated with a chemical preparation containing saltpeter. salt-peter. New York Evening Sun. |