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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 69, 19 November 1887, Page 4

Tb* following curious story is reUtad by a correspondent of a Christ, •hurch paper.—“A lady in Christchurch had a remarkable experience ♦he other day. About seven o’clock one Wednesday evening, while walking along Colombo-street in company ■wuh a lady companion, she was suddenly seized with a peculiar kind of fit, which was so serious as to necessitate being immediately removed to her friends house. For some days 1 after the fit she was in a very despondent mood, which to her friends was unaccountable, inasmuch as there was no apparent cause therefor. A few days afterward came the news from Melbourne that her sister had, on the night she had the fit, and at seven o'clock, been killed on the railway. It appears* that the unfortunate lady was crossing the line near Essendou, and, being in deep thought, did not hear the approaching engine, which dashed her to pieces, and threw her in a mangled heap on the platform, on which stood several awe-stricken passengers. Death, of course, was instantaneous. Here, then, is a case demonstratively proving that mental telegraphy and sympathy may and do occur under certain normal as well as abnormal conditions. Dr Tuke has related similar remarkable cases.”