Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1883 — BURIED ALIVE. [ARTICLE]

BURIED ALIVE.

The Terrible Discovery Made at Steubenville, Ohio.—A Young Lady’s Horrible , Fate. A dispatch from Steubenville, Ohio, says: Recently the Catholic burial-ground in this city, not being large enough for its purpose, was abandoned. New grounds were purchased, and interments are now made in the latter, west of the city. Yesterday Fathers Hartnedy and Hartley, the pastors of the church here? with others, went to the old cemetery for the purpose of removing the body of one Father Duffy, Who had been buried about eighteen years. One of the party had been a pall-bearer of the deceased. He thought he knew the right grave, and said the remains were in a metallic casket. When the grave was opened a metallic casket was found rusty with age, but upon opening it the remains brought to view were not those of a male person, but of a young lady. The body was not identified by anyone present, but was shown to be in a remarkable state of preservation, although, no doubt Is entertained of its having been there for years. The eyes of the corpse were open and were of a bluish color, while the hair was light brown and curling. The shroud exhibited evidence of time’s ravages, hanging in shreds. But the most remarkable discovery was the position of the right arm of the sleeper, which, instead of lying folded across the breast or falling at the side, was drawn around the neck, the palm nearly touching the left side of the face. The conclusion formed by those present was that she had been buried alive, having been in a trance at the time of her interment. No one presenfknew who she was. Father Hartnedy, in a card this evening, says he knows nothing of the horrible discovery which was so freely talked about on the streets this morning.