Garland Globe | 1906-03-24 | Page 7 | Not Quite Ready for Grave

Not Quite Ready for Grave. An Innkeeper at Leutschau, Hungary, HJ named Joseph Schwartz, alarmed his H fnmily recently by coming suddenly to life after ho had been laid out for H burial. Schwartz found himself lying H In nn open coffin, surrounded by six HJ lighted cnndlcs and a quantity of flowers. His children wcro singing HJ funeral hymns in tho next room. The . flrst thing Schwartz did nftcr climb- 'HJ lng out ot his coffin was to extinguish H thu candles, because, as ho after- HJ wards explained, it seemed to him such a terrible wnsto. Ho then en- H tered tho dining room, whero his wife H and family were, still wearing his HJ shroud, and frightened them into hys- H tcrlcs. It ntterwards transpired that H Schwartz, who suffered from a pain- H fill mnlady, had been given an over- H dose of morphia by n local doctor. Ho H fell Into comatose state, and whon H this had lasted twenty-four hours his H family concluded thnt ho was dead, jH and mndo preparations for tho fu- tie in I without calling the doctor again. H