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Show DECLARED HE CAME BACK FROM REAVEN Experience of Charles F. Davenport Daven-port Who Survived Two Days After His Return. SUFFERED INTENSE ' . AGONY Released by Death at the Hour He Predicted the Grim Reaper Would Come. By Leased Wire to The Tribune. NEW YORK, May 13. Goinc into a state of coma, Charles F. Da'vcnport, 10 years old, told his aecd mother, Mrs, G. Ii. Davenport, that he had came back from heaven to suffer for two days, and that his soul had been saved, lie suffered intense agony for tho two days, and died today at tho hour he predicted. Davenport has been sick for some time, and his mother left him apparently apparent-ly asleep early Wednesday moruinc At 10 o'clock she was called to his side by cries of "Ma, ma, come here." She obeyed, and stood by his bedside. ''I have been dead, mother," he said, "and I euine back to tell you it was nil right. My soul is saved. "7 went to sleep and T awoke in the dark. Oh, it was so dark. 1 stacsicrod forward and suddenly I name into a great jicht. Tt mado me happy, but tho. liyht bcjjnu to fade and T prayed that 1 might stay. The light still faded. I prayed that I was willintr to suiTer' the rest of my life if I might at least come back lo that liizht, and they told nie 1 could come back for two days. Then J rot u rued." The man then relapsed back on tho bed. His eyes closed and ho 3lept. He awoke that night . suiTerine, great agony. For, two days the time allotted al-lotted to hiiiisQlf tp live he lingered, "while his body 'was racked by' shooting pains. Jle even got up, dressed himself and went dovn to' the street on Friday. He called his mother to him this morning. . His oyes were glassy. "1 am going now.'.' he said. "Call Harry and our neighbor. Mrs. Kollencbaeh; they must be here before I go." Mis. Davenport obeyed. Tho party gathered around the bedside, and Davenport, in a voice scarcely more than a whisper, said: "1 am going, mother back back to the great light. I'm not dying. I died once. I am only going back the light promised " Tho faint voice faded and he was dead. |