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Show STRANGE EXPERIENCE. A TOLEDO MAS LIVES THROUall AS AOE IS T1IIKTV SLCOSDS. A Toledo See nian was sitting In an office on Adorn? Stmt recently chatting with the occupant, a well known young lawyer, when the conversation turned to dreams and the rapidity with which the brain worked during sleep. "Yes," lemarked tho legal genUeman, ''the brain Is a marvelous contrivance. If that fact eser skipped my memory it was brought lorcibly to miud several days since. I will tell you how It happened. I was sufleriog with a thumping toothache, and resolved to have tiie offender out. Accord, ingly I made for the nearest dentist's dent-ist's while my determination w as strong, and, dropping into a dental chair, answered to hU "will you take gas?" in the affirmative. It was my initial exjicrience w Uh the fluid, but I inhaled It without experiencing ex-periencing any jn'cullar sensation at Hrt. "I noticed preseuUy, however, that the cilice clock ticked abnormally abnor-mally loud; In bet, it soon was pounding away like one of Kruprs giant hammers. Kindly I drilled away Into another state and found mj self In a strange city. Several months pasl and numerous trivial things happened which 1 remember remem-ber vividly, even the minutest details. de-tails. Somehow or other I got in with a fa.-t croud of young men, and oce night, during a quarrel, I shot ani fatally woicded ono of my companions. "I was arrested, and, alter the usual preliminary proceedings, my case came up for trial in the court of common pleas. The trial was a lengthy one. I remember w ell the district attorney's summing up aud the strong defanso my attorney made in my behalf, but without avail, for the court sentenced me to be executed by electricity, a s'.rauge and fearful death. My lawyer got a stay of the execution of Uiesentence, and the a-e was carried to the circuit cir-cuit court. Another lengthy trial ensued, concluding by the judge continuing the decision of the lower court, aud I again became reconciled recon-ciled to the thought of being execute.!. execu-te.!. My lawyers were untiring, and Anally made another effort to save my life, carrying the case to the supreme court. I think something like a year and a half elapsed before the case came to trial for the third time. "However, its conclusion lore no fruit to my liking, for I was again sentenced to an electrical execution. I stent many weary days In prison, and it was a relief when the day set apart for my death camearound. I aw oke early, bathed, ate a hearty meal, and at 10 o'clock, when the turnkey beckoned mu to follow him to the death-room, I was wholly prewired pre-wired to depart this life. I seated myself in the somewhat clumsy chair, aud my anus and legs were straj.d tightly down. A !anii-ened !anii-ened siunge was placed on my head, and although t didn't look up, I knew well that tho connection was made that would soon make me a human conductor. I clied my eye, butoiiened them just in time to see the jailor drop a white handkerchief. hand-kerchief. At the ssme instant the current was turned on. A dreadful wrenching, burning lain shot through my system and then aud then I came to. Tile tooth had jut been pulled. I was under the influence in-fluence of gas just thirty seconds. Yes, the human brain U a rapid worker." |