A CORPSE SITTING UP AND TALKING.
A singular story cornea from Clinton, Kentucky. It appears that George O. Daniels, of that place, had been ill for several months, and the other day, to all appearance, died. The body was out in a coffin, where it remained for 20 hours, awaiting the arrival of relatives to attend the funeral. At midnight on Thursday the watchers who surrounded the cpffin were startled by a deep groan emanating from it, and all but one, a Gorman of the name of Wabbeking, rushed from the room. Wabbeking remained, and as the groans continued he rained the coffin lid and saw tha*. DanieJH was alive. Seizing the body he placed it Upright. A few spasmodic gasps, a Hhudder, and the " corpse " spoke. The relatives returned to find the man sitting in a chair and conversing with reasonable strength. Mr Daniels claims to have been perfectly conscious of everything which passed around him, but says he was unable to move a muscle. He heard the sobs of his relatives when he was pronounced dead by the doctors, and noticed the preparations for the funeral. He is about <S0 years of age.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2209, 4 September 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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195A CORPSE SITTING UP AND TALKING. Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2209, 4 September 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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