A SINGULAR AFFAIR.
The widow of Irvine Bishop, the thought reader, asserts that her husband was dissected while m a cataleptic trance, and adds that the had frequently lain m a state of catalepsy for a period of 48 hours. The will of the deceased gentleman ordered that his body was not to be touched until decomposition was m an advanced state. The widow accuses the medical gentlemen who performed the autopsy of murder.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2138, 18 May 1889, Page 2
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74A SINGULAR AFFAIR. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2138, 18 May 1889, Page 2
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