Daily Democrat And News

Buried Alive.—Within a few months past, says the Albany Knickerbocker, necessity has demanded that the German Lutheran burial ground, on the Bowery, should be stripped of its sacred rights as a sepulchre for the dead, and improved with dwellings for the living. Last week, while engaged in removing coffins, the men came across one containing the body of a man named Wertz, who died and was buried eighteen months since. For some cause or other, persons present, whether friends of the deceased or not, we cannot say, were prompted to open the coffin. When they did so, imagine their surprise on beholding the body face downward, and the fingers of the man grappled in his hair! From this it is evident that Mr. Wertz had been buried alive, and, in his agony of distress on becoming conscious of his entombment, had worked himself into the position above described. This is a horrible state of things to be realised by the friends of the deceased.