“DEAD” MAN REVIVED

Hokitika Guardian, 17 June 1933, Page 7

“DEAD” MAN REVIVED

HEAjRT STOPS THREE TIMES. YOUNG MAN’S SENSATIONS. Although his heart had stopped beat

ing throe times within two hours, recently a young motor-driver in England was able to report for duty a short time afterwards. The driver, M l -' Walter Worral, aged 25, of gai'-ford, went with three friends to Barrow to vetch .a Rugby-League -football match. When their train was approaching Crewe on their return journey by a roundabout route, Mr Worral collapsed. Before the eyes of his horror-

stricken companions' his limbs stiffened and breathing and heart action ceased completely. They were convinced that i he wag dead. At Crewe station artificial respiration was ap'plied and he revived, but after a short interval he ag.un collapsed. (Mr Worral was taken into the .waiting-room, where he was again brought fiound. Finally his heart stopped beating for a third time, but once more the efforts of the doctors raid the ambulance men were rewarded. Early next morning ho was allowed to continue the journey home. “I have the very vague recollection of standing beside a doctor in the wait-ing-room,'’ Mr MorraJ said, describing hi? weird experience. I appeared to be an interested spectator, watching him trying to hiring me back to conscious mess. Myi;;l>ody seemed to he lying in the waiting-room, and he was appar-! ently applying artificial respiration and injecting something into my arm, ‘‘Perhaps it wag all just a dream, but I had a distinct feeling that- I was standing among people who were trying to help me to do something which every impulse prompted me not to do. I 'do not think I wag dead.” , When he collapsed for the third time, 'Mr Worral added, everything went he was conscious of nothing further. Om his recovery his limbs were semi-paralysed. i

After going home Mr Worral visited his sick wife in hospital to tell her not to worry about him. Next day he rpse early and .reported for duty as usual. Mr Worrai, a« a rule, ©njoy s good health, and he attributes his illness to something he had eaten.