" DEAD MAN'S " RECOVERY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 166, 13 July 1907, Page 13

" DEAD MAN'S " RECOVERY.

Some sensation .was caused at Koebdale, Bng.. on Monday. May 2T, by the recovery of an apparently dead man. A traveller, named James Fegan, aged 26, of Preston, who has been living in lodgings in Davestreet, Rochdale, had been seriously ill ■with pneumonia. His brother and sister were summoned to his bedside, aad he apparently died at seven o'clock on Monday morning. The body was "laid away" aud left in the room with only a sheet covering it. The doctor was informed that death had takei place, and a certificate was made out for the purposes of interment. When the undertaker was measuring the body, however, he noticed a slight movement! This occurred a second time and then the eyelids began to twitch, A brother in the room shouted wildly to Fesan, who moaned in reply. Medical assistance was summoned, but in the meantime the undertaker had, by plunging Fegan - s hands into cold v.ater, so far revived the man that he muttered, "Oh, I'm so cold." ITegan quickly recovered sufficiently to sit up jn bed. and in the afternoon his c-onditicn was so innch improved that his recovery is now considered extremely hopeful. The undertaker, who has had thirty-three years , experience, and attends one thousand Interments a year, says this is the most remarkable experience he has ever had- He expresses the opinion that Fegan owes his life to the fact that when he entered the room he took from under his head a pillow, which was propping it up too high, and that this enabled 3Hxa to breatiii -Sore