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Show Girl Is Awakened :: I from the DeadtB ! 'H &nouls Cut Fingers From Corpse in . ' H Grave and Bring Her Back .'j j' . to Life. j I ( , B UDAPEST, May 23. A strangft story ls told here by a girl named J I1, i Helen Fritsch Egersncg, who is ',' reported to have been awakened ill from the dead by grave robbers. j "When the doctors pronounced , l' dead," said the girl to an American , ' correspondent, "father and mother J, IH bought me the finest outfit they could i j j , find and during the preparations for the J burial they allowed It to leak out that , Nl I would take Into the grave all ray jew- , els. Including several diamond rings, a j , IH chain and locket." Then she held up i, her right hand which Is minus the . ImHM three middle fingers. "f ll "I wore the rings on the missing ,- j ll ones," she said. "I was awakened from '( j mv death-like sleep by an awful pain. I Silting up I saw two figures rise and " llee. The blood was streaming from the v, right hand. 1 felt Its warmth, and look- ' Ing about felt myself In a narrow box, ' deep down In the earth At my feet , ' stood a ladder,, which tho strange fig- j ures I had seen used to escape. I r'VI mounted It and ran after them, I saw , IH somebody scale the wall I was In the i ( cemetery, and. only then it slowly '. dawned upon me that I had been In the ( grave, buried! - '4, !),' IH "The clothes I wore strengthened this j IH conviction. As to the wound, I noticed j that three fingers of my right hand had t IB been cut off. It was done to secure my ' jH rings, so the authorities say. How I j; ' 1 got home I don't know, and I fright- L" IH encd my parents nearly to death when 4?: IH I knocked nt the door and called for 1 h them." |