BURRTED ALIVE.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1531, 6 April 1885, Page 3

BURRTED ALIVE.

— * : THE HORRIBLE FATE OE A YOU NO VIRGINIAN * WOMAN. A New York cable states tbat Mary Cox, a well-known and popular young I ladv. wholivec near the mouth of ye Little Cavon River, was taken violently il'. Tlie physician decided she was sufferim. from' neuralgia The dose was administered at once, anH another left with instructions to it '*> twenty-four hours. For some reason the <* »enn-l dose was given in a very shortairae. An hour or two afterwards tbe death of Miss Cox was announced. Two days later the body was buried; At the funeral one lady insisted that SJs* C:k was not dead, and be_ser*«d that a physician be sej|t for. That night the "dogs of a maW living near the gravevarrl sritiaivd tlwrn^h s near the tomb aad k-p- up •**■ ?3i-s7 *- t -" ! * t howling. Next day the grave was opened, and to the horror of all it wss found that the girl had b:en bnr'ed alive The lining was torn fro n i-.h- •*; j •■* ot th" ooffin. and the pillo.v was in shrods. The poor ?irl bad literally --tripped tbe clothe f'-om her bodv. H-r arras and hands wf*re. to -n and bleeding, her lips bitten through, and h vdf il« of hair we. re torn fro ti ! i«*r bead. The girl had com<» to life and evidently made a fearful struggle to escape. The awful afiir filU th* om-n-i-iity with hoiTor.