Fetching a spade, they dug up the child, which was about one foot
below the surface. On the access of air, following the removal of
the sand and turf, the child began to cry, and was immediately
taken up and carried to its mother, who washed it and laid it on
her bed and soon gave it the breast. The child was healthy with
the exception of a club-foot, and must have been under ground at
least fifteen minutes and no air could have reached it. It seems
likely that the child was born asphyxiated and was buried in this
state, and only began to assume independent vitality when for the
second time exposed to the air. This curious case was verified to
English correspondents by Dr. Wagner, and is of unquestionable
authority; it became the subject of a thorough criminal
investigation in Germany.
During the funeral procession of Marshal MacMahon in Paris an
enormous crowd was assembled to see the cortege pass, and in this
crowd was a woman almost at the time of delivery; the jostling
which she received in her endeavors to obtain a place of vantage
was sufficient to excite contraction, and, in an upright
position, she gave birth to a fetus, which fell at her feet. The
crowd pushed back and made way for the ambulance officials, and
mother and child were carried off, the mother apparently
experiencing little embarrassment.
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