"DEAD" MAN REVIVED
HEART STOPS THREE TIMES.
YOUNG MAN'S SENSATIONS. Although his heart stopped' beating three times within two hours, recently a young motor-driver in England was able to report for duty a short time afterwards. The driver Mr Walter Worral, aged "' 25, of Salford, went with three friends to Barrow to watch a Rugby-League football match. When their train was approaching Crewe on their return journey by a roundabout route, Mr Worral collapsed. Before the eyes of his horrorstricken companions his limbs stiffened and breathing and heart action ceased completely. They were convinced that he was dead. At Crewe station artificial respiration was applied and he revived, but after a short interval he again collapsed. Mr Worral was taken into the waiting-room, where he was again brought round. Finally his heart stopped beating far a third time, but once more the efforts of the doctor and the ambulance men were rewarded. Early next morning he was allowed to continue the journey home. ' "I have the vei-y vague recollection of standing beside a doctor in the wait-ing-room," Mr Worral ,said, describing his weird experience. I appeared to be an interested spectator, watching him trying to bring me back to consciousness. My body seemed to be lying in the waiting-rpom, and he was apparently applying artificial respiration and injecting something into my arm. "Perhaps it was all just a dream, but I had a distinct feeling that I was standing among people who were trying to help me to do something which every impulse prompted me not to do. I do not think I was dead."
When he collapsed for the third time Mr Worral added, everything went black and he was conscious of nothing further. On his recovery his limbs were semi-paralysed. After going home Mr Worral visited his sick wife in hospital to tell her not to worry about him. Next, day he rose early and reported for duty as usual. Mr Worral, as a rule, enjoys good health and he attributes his illness to something he had eaten.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 211, 19 June 1933, Page 8
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