BURIED ALIVE
The correspondent of tho "Daily News" Mndi particulars of a case of an officer being buried In a tranoe, whfoli has caused considerable sensation. Major Msjuroff, an artillery officer, and aide-de-camp to the Governor-General of Odessa, aged 35, died m wm Buppoied threa weeks ago ■omewhit suddenly, and wsa Interred forty honrfl afterwards. His funeral wbb marked with maoh military pomp, and by the presence of all the olvio sod military notables. A few days ago, while the family YiraH m the neoropolii was being c enoyatad for the Russian Fde de» Morte, tht coffin lid was noticed to have been partly forced open. It was immediately xtmoved, and the body wan found face downward!. The face wai dread fuUy lacerated, and the flesh gnawed from tbe btnda. " The corps was still bleeding, which coDfirmi the statement of a workman that h's attention was first attracted by ft nolle m the coffio, and the unfortunate Major died only on the Imtant of the appalling discovery.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1597, 30 June 1887, Page 3
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167BURIED ALIVE Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1597, 30 June 1887, Page 3
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