Washington County GaArchives News.....The Corpse Came to Life December 8, 1903
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Sandersville Progress December 8, 1903
  Reuben Jones, a colored man who lived in the southern part of the county was
brought to Sandersville and tried on a-writ of lunacy last Wednesday. Sunday
morning Sheriff Doolittle went to give the inmates in the jail their breakfast
when he found that Reuben was apparently dead. He had no pulse and his body was
cold. He informed Major Newman who directed him to hold an inquest, buy the
coffin and burial clothes and notify the relatives of the negro. Q. Richards,
Esq., acting as coroner, summoned a jury to inquire into the cause of death and
they went to the jail to hold the inquest. After reaching the jail where Reuben
was stretched out one of the jurors saw him move his foot. Further investigation
proved that life was not extinct. A messenger had been sent to notify the
relatives of Reuben who arrived Sunday afternoon to carry the body to his home
for burial, when much to their surprise they found that he was alive. Reuben
will be sent to the asylum as soon as a place can be found for him.

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