MUSICIAN IN A TRANCE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 22, 18 May 1914, Page 2

MUSICIAN IN A TRANCE.

An extraordinary case of trance or catalepsy occurred at Barcelona recently. Don Francisco Perez Carero, conductor of the orchestra at the Novedades Theatre, was seized with sudden illness on the night of March 27, arid the doctors certified that death' occurred at eleven o'clock on the following morning, duo to heart failure. The burial was arranged to take place at eleven next morning, at which hour the funeral coach, the parish clergy, and family and its friends, and a great number of theatrical celebrities arrived at the deceased's house. Suddenly a rumor was circulated that Don Perez Cabrero had been resuscitated, and that the body on being transferred to the coffin had lifted up its right hand. Medical experts made a fresh examination, and i'ouijd that while there were the usual symptoms of post mortem rigidity, the commencement of decomposition was entirely absent. The priests, mourners, hired men and funeral coach were, accordingly ordered to retire, and await developments. Senor Perez Cabrero was a notable musician, having been conductor at the most important lyric theatres in Barcelona for forty years. TTe was likewise the composer of several successful light operas,