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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1335, 24 March 1883, Page 4

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The queaion as to whether premature burials of living pwsons are not ; more common than is generally imagined hat frequently be-., discussed (stays the St James' Qazato);and an■',; incident reported in one of the new York; papers is not calculated' to relieve anxiety on this point. Mrs W. L. Pettit, wife efthe teller of the first iVational Bank at Port Wayne, appar-

ently died, and the undertaker' took charge of what wan supposd to he her remains. Arrangements were made for the funeral, and watches: were sitting with'the body. At 10 o'clock; at night the watchers started to their; feet in alarm on hearing a faint sigh, which thrilled through the room. It proceeded from Mrs Pettit, who a moment later was seen sitting up with for eyes open and asking in an audible 'whisper for her husband.. The'attend dants were speechless with wonder, and then screamed with excitement. Their Bcreams brought Mr Pettit to thoroom in haste, and " with joy unspeakable, he clasped his living wife in his arms." The doctor was sent for, and could not beliovehis eyes"'.at' beholding living what in his exact medical science he hud declared dead. His position wa*. in fact an awkward one; but he seem.' to have made the best of the situation, for he ."administered restoratives, '■" ami Mrs Pettit, by latest accounts, "wi.B nevei belter in her life.