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Show CORPSE SITS UPRIGHT. Apparently Dead Man Astonishes Coroner Cor-oner in a Morgue. OMAHA, Nov. $. In the morgue In this city a man, apparently dead, suddenly threw off the sheet with which he was covered and. with a groan loud enough to bo heard half a block away, oat bolt upright on the slab on which he had been laid out, looked into the faces of the Coroner's Jury, which had been impaneled to Inquire into the cause of his death, and asked what was going on. A stranger who, from papers on his person, was believed to be James Black, a bricklayer from Cedar Rapids nnd Ot-tumwa, Ot-tumwa, la., was found unconscious ln the street by Thomas Grier, a night watchman for the Hoaglund Lumber company. Beside him lay a half-empty bottle of ether. The unconscious man was taken to Clarkson hospital and there at 1 o'clock he apparently expired. Coroner Bralley removed the body to the morgue and Impaneled the Jury. While the Jury was conducting Its investigation Into the cause of death Black rose as from the dead and struck horror into the hearts of the Coroner nnd his Jury. A physician was immediately imme-diately summoned. He applied restoratives, restora-tives, but Black soon fell Into unconsciousness uncon-sciousness again and died In a few hours. |