Adventure of a Yankee Reporter.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 32, 12 January 1884, Page 7

Adventure of a Yankee Reporter.

Wheit the Siamese twins'died, Philadelphia surgery had the honour of dissecting them ; and under the peculiar circumstances — one having died of horror consequent on his brother's death — the public were in a fever- heat of expectatfon to learn whether they could have exised apart Various were the artifices resorted to by the "specials " to gain a knowledge of this fact> the doctors having sternly declared that they would not admit the press, as it looked like pandering to the morbid appetite of the public. Medical students and full-blown doctors with duly "vised" certificates from other cities increased tt> an alarming extent. Hospital porters were offered premiums to vacate their positions for one nay only. But all was of no avail ; the doctors closed the doors, and the operation bega i. it its conclusion^ it was asoertain'e I that the twins could have undcrgon a -uncessful severance in life. At that interesting moment, or in the debate w.iich tollowed, one of the doctors observe 1 an unusually life-like hue upon a subject waiting for dissection. But what was his horror> and indeed the horror of them all, as the remark fell from his lips, td observe the corpse suddenly jump up and make for the door. He opened it in time and fled, followed by the enraged doctors. A cab was waiting outside, and into this popped .the supposed corpse, td be driven like mad to the railway station, where the complacent special safely arrived with thn knowledge that he had made a nig beat.