A Horrible Case of Trance.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 148, 25 June 1887, Page 3 (Supplement)

A Horrible Case of Trance.

The Odessa correspondent of the "Daily News " sends particulars of a case which has caused considerable sensation. Major Majuroff, an artillery officer,' and aide-de-camp to the Governor-General of Odessa, aged 35, died as was supposed somewhat suddenly, and was in tewed forty hours afterwards. His funeral was marked by much military pomp, and by the presence of all the civic and military notables. A few days after, Avhile the family vault in the necropolis was being renovated for the Eussian Fete dcs Morts, the coffin lid was noticed to have been partly forced open. It was immediately removed, and the body was found face dowmvarde. The face was dreadfully, lacerated and the flesh gnawed from the hands. The corpse was still bleeding, which confirms the statement of a workman that his attention, was:first attracted by a noise in the coffin, and the unfortunate major died only on the instant of the appalling discovery.. .;. , ,i ;