A VERY ANGRY CORPSE.

Franklin Times, Volume 10, Issue 797, 5 January 1923, Page 5

A VERY ANGRY CORPSE.

! man believed dead. Pierre Hedelin, a French railway employee, has requested the Mairie of the Seventh Arrondissement to cancel his death certificate and restore his name to the roll of the li\ing. Having been certified as dead, he awakened just in time to prevent his own funeral. Hedelin, who is a robust man ox 530, look to his bed, complaining of strange internal pains, anti a few days later his landlady, on entering his room, found his body' cold and stiff. Having failed to detect any sign of life, she promptly reported Hedclin’s death to the Mairie, and sent telegrams calling his relatives to the funeral. The body was covered with a sheet and locked in the bedroom, and that night the usual vigil was kept with the windows open and the candles burning. An undertaker had been summoned and a grave prepared. Half an hour before the time fixed for placing the body in the coffin a medical officer, calling to verify the death certificate, entered the bedroom and found Hedelin pacing the room, protesting furiously against having been locked in. He was quite unaware of the funeral preparations, and did not even know that he had been in a state .of catalepsy, until friends began to explain the presence of the undertaker and the sorrowing relatives.