WHEN THE GHOST WALKED
Very many of the New Year's Eve audience, who watched the execution and interment of General de Pression, wondered why, soon after the coffin was lowered into the grave, the ghost or actual shape of the General arose suddenly from his tomb and disappeared hastily at the back of the stage. Those superstitious members of the crowd, who took the apparition as an indieation that all the efforts of the carnival to bury the General had been unsuccessful, will probably take comfort from the actual facts. The gentleman who played the part of General de Pression had every . intention of remaining decently buried until the crowd dispersed, but unfortunately, the fumes of a quantity of saltpetre which was burned to signify the very proper. fate which had overtaken the deceased, very nearly turned burlesque into earnest .It was only by casting off the role of the deceased General and knocking to be let out of his coffin, that the "corpse" was ahle to prevent himself from heing asphyxiated. I
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 111, 2 January 1932, Page 4
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