STRANGE AFFAIR AT THE HULL INFIRMARY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 258, 19 February 1877, Page 3

STRANGE AFFAIR AT THE HULL INFIRMARY.

,'V most i-s !.!•;!> >r-(Uua.r-y aHHir is ivportod : t.o havi! happmcd a. t'ow a::'i> Ji-'- th" (full lnliriua.!'.y. A- man win, lad Ivu admitted as an m-pa.hiriit at the Ensiahitioti died suddenly, or raflnr was Hom^u; l-.li liaVO died, after Illlvili'C been speechless for fclu'ci! days. The body «-;y, in. duo Oixil'S" r-niovoil ho the dead-homo, w'irr'l-.- ■ ■ ~ ■ -i were lyiws, an I aj l !■'■;.. v• -, -•• •: -i ■■) hold !l". ITl<[; Ii : -f-. It! .'..: ■ day. ih I> -itiLC early iu i■■ ■ -i;» ■ : ho was tak"U l-or dead. \i .■■:■ :■ ,> 'roil, andothei- arrau.;-'-moms ma lo f<>r the- iut'-nimuf. oil the body. A.hi.uh n:u ■ o'elo 'k in (illy eve nine;, ";ie of the tvtui.l.> uur-vs, iti company wif.ii. two assistants, ha 1 oceasiou to remove an >ther boily to the dead-house. She tmteivd the room lirst, in order to lie-lit the e;a.s. and as sin; was (loin:; so, she noticed soutoMiinir white raised above "at; of the fables, u:id on t.nruin;.,' i:mniil;;':ivc a bunl shriek, and ms'ied out of the place, exclaiming. "There's ono of those (load men sitf : iuc up." The t'ri'c'it sin; received may be. better ini:i.;iped than doscrib'. I. fh is raid that on:- of the jurymen who leid boon summoned for the impH-sfc had, arrived, and hearin c the shriek, mad.; !■".■> way fco flic dt ad 'emso, and, bciii"; m»'! by tee mil's;', war. fcobl what had occurred, file iuijiii'ilia-t-'ly went in the room, and sure. rnoiv!''i tbo ina-u was prouoimc. d by hhu to In; alivo. 'Ttif unese then ran for idle ilor.tor, Or undine; him,, she said, •'E>ooI'.or, you're wanted down in the deadhouse ; ono of tliu dead men is* sittiie; up!" He thereupon. wtMifc to the lornse. and was not (on:; before lie was convinced of tlio fart that fth« man was not dead. TUo were nut "IV, stlnmlauts were adniiiiij.i.orcd, and he was removed illicit to out! of tliu warty. Be remained spordilt'ss for a day, but lie has since buuonu! hotter, arul thwry is every omb;.v hilily of hU ultimate vt!i:ovory. Ho muse thluli himsolf very t'ortunato in so narrowly tM(!a[iin;a.most liorribLi: dyath. ; for, in ill I probability, the body would luivu N:ra; put into tho eottin ami sorowt'il down that ovtmin:,'. Stops will bo taken iu future to prov'.-ut anoiher " nusfako " ''(.•hi;.; matlo, and it boon dtuidod that all !>odios in future shall be left iu thu dfiul-honsi! a rurtatu timo aftor UtV lias I'oon prououuutal extinct. :aud to :i tinal exa.tiiiua.tion afterwards.