Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1879 — A Narrow Escape. [ARTICLE]

A Narrow Escape.

A remarkable case of - mistaken identity occurred at St. Louis recently. Herman Schuster awoke in the morning and found himself dead. At least the newspapers said he was dead and that his body was at the morgue. Mr. Schuster went to the place mentioned, and there, sure enough, found himself laid out on a slab as dead as any one could wish. Mr. Schuster was alarmed. The forehead of the corpse was his, the hair and mustache were the color of his, and the body would not vary in weight five pounds from his own. The clothes, also, were exactly like those adjoining Mr. Schuster’s person. “ 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 is not mine pody. Dose is pine and mine is plack. Got in himmel! vat a narrow eschape—vot a glose gall dose vas! ”

Robert H. Newell (Orpheus C. Kerr) has recovered from the mysterious loss of power to eat, which nearly caused his death by starvation two years ago. Abkanha# ha* 170 InntvticH confined in jaih.