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Show HE WAS NOT BURIED ALIVE. A Dead Man'. Heart Cnt Ont a. a Safeguard Safe-guard Again. t Premature Burial. Baltimore, Jan. 27. In accordance j with the will of Dr. Charles F. Heuser, who died Saturday, the heart of the de- ! ceased was cut from tho body yesterday. yester-day. It was replaced, tho wound sewed up and the body cremated. This was done as a safeguard against premature pre-mature burial. It is said that when his wife died some years ago the doctor, to be sure that she should not be placed alive in the grave, pierced her heart with a surgeon's knife and opened veins in tier arms, and that for like reasons many of the dead relatives of tho deceased were similarly treated. |