A Horrible Case of Trance.
The Odessa correspondent of the Daily News sends particulars of a case of this kind, which has caused considerable sensation. Major Majuroff, an artillery officer, and aide-de-camp to the Govenor-General of Odessa, aged 35, died as was supposed three weeks ago somewhat suddenly, and was interred forty hours afterwards. His funeral was marked by such military pomp, and by the presence of all the civic and military notables. A few days ago, while the family vault in the necropolis was being renovated for the Eussian Fete des Morts, the coffin lid was noticed to have been partly forced open. It was immediately removed, and the body was found face downwards. The face was dreadfully lacerated, and the flesh gnawed from the bandit The corpse was still bleeding, which confirms the statement of of a workmen that his attention was first attracted by a noise in the coffin, and the unfortunate Major died only on the instant of the appalling dis- j cowry.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 7, 25 June 1887, Page 4
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167A Horrible Case of Trance. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 7, 25 June 1887, Page 4
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