AN HOUR OF DEATH.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9181, 2 September 1908, Page 3

AN HOUR OF DEATH.

WOMAN'S STRANGE EXPERIENCE.

Early in July Dr. Thomas Mulligan, a well-known physician of New Britain, Connecticut, wrote to the editor of one of the principal New York newspapers^saying: "If you care to come and'fetuk to a patient of mine, who died at two o'clock yesterday afternoon, and was as thoroughly dead for <me hour as she ever can be, she will be glad to give you an audience." The editor promptly despatched a reporter, who found the patient, Mrs William McNulty, quite convinced that she had just returned from a visit to the spiritual world. She was still weak, and had great ifficulty in describing her sensations n earthly terms. This is what she said: "Everyhing was black at first. Then I eem ad to glide through space over interminable distances. After a while a region of strange light appeared in front of me, and it grew dazzling, a hundred times more so than sunlight. It was not like the light of the sun, but was just a flaming brilliance, which pervaded everything, though it did not proceed irom any one place in particular. I found myself amidst endless crowds of people, all smiling and moving to and fro at will. Suddenly I saw my mother, and beside her a distant relative, who died thirty years ago. While talking to them the light saemed to go out, and I awoke to find jjr. Mulligan bending over me." Dr. Mulligan says tnat the lady's mind is perfectly clear, and that she was in no trance, but that her condition was one of absolutely suspended animation. "So far as my medical skill could determine," he added, "she was dead."