STRANGE RECOVERY FROM SUPPOSED TRANCE.
A servant girl in the employ of Mr Pierre Gauvreau",* of Quebec, named Josephine Gauvreau, recently received information from a tellable source of the sudden death of a younger sister,employed in a cdttori factory at. Lawrence, Massachusetts. She 1 acc'ordingly donned mourning garb ; brtt what wag her surprise when later-on she received a letter written in the handwriting" of the sister she had supposed tor be dead. From the letter she learned tbstt her sister had been ordered by her physicians to use chloroform to induce sleep, l and, taking an overdose, she bad been overtaken by a sleep so profound that it was thought she was dead. She was acccndingly prepared for burial, and the mass for the repose of her soul was" being celebrated, when all who were in the church were horrified at hearing' a scream from the coffin. It was immediately opened, and the young woman taken to the presbytery adjoining the' church, where, under skilful attention, she quickly recovered,, and.jia npw,on! her way to her birth-place, Quebec. '
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Kumara Times, Issue 1707, 20 March 1882, Page 2
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