Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1878 — Herman Schuster’s “Close Call.” [ARTICLE]

Herman Schuster’s “Close Call.”

Herman Schuster, of St. Louis, awoke the other morning to find himself dead. That is to say, the newspapers said he was dead, and that his body was at that moment at the morgue. Mr. Schuster went to the place mentioned, and there, sure enough, found himself laid out on a marble slab, dead as anybody could wish to be. The forehead of the corpse was exactly like his own. The mustache likewise. The body would n’t vary in weight five pounds from the weight of his own. The clothes of the inanimate person were as much his own as if he had worn them himself. “Vot ish de golor of his eyes ?” asked Herman of Dr, Ainbaugh. The doctor turned up the corpse’s eyelids and found that the eyes were blue. ‘ ‘ Dot ish petter,” said Herman, with a long sigh of relief. “ Dot ish not mine pody. Dose ice is plue, and mine is plack. Gott in Hirnmell! vot a narrow eshcape—vot a glose gall dose was!” It was the most remarkable case of mistaken identity that St. Louig has had in years.— Buffalo Express.