A WEEK “DEAD.”

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10712, 9 October 1928, Page 6

A WEEK “DEAD.”

WOMAN LIVES AGAIN

tjUEER CASE RECALLED,

GRAFTON, Sept. 26. The remarks of Hr. Creed, M.L.E., on the haunting fear of burial alive, recalled vividly to the mind of Mr. J. J. Englert; of Maclean, an expedience that happened to his late mother many years before her death. Mr. Englert recalled how his late mother, who was born on July , 183/, was taken seriously ill tyhen she was 38 years of age. She hefcamje ipserisiWe (and lay in a trance. The doctor who attended her pronounced her dead, and the family made the necessary arrangements for burial. A Mrs. Lange, ■who was attending Mrs. Englert as a nurse, was doubtful of her death, and held a mirror over her lips. This revealed a slight smear o n the glass, and she at once notified, the doctor, who again made an examination, and still pronounced life extinct. The nurse persisted m her belief, and contmued'to moisten the lips of the supposedly dead woman with brandy for over a week at the end-of which time (die awakened from her trance, and could tell an that happened. She related hearing the doctor pronounce her dead, the mourning o ; f her family, and- the preparation for her burial , After her recovery Mrs. Englert enjoyed'the best cf health until 1891, a period of. 16 years after the fearsome ordeal she passed l through*