NOVEL USE FOR “MIKE”

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 210, 18 August 1934, Page 15

NOVEL USE FOR “MIKE”

American Man’s Idea PREVENTING LIVE BURIAL A gentleman in the United States has a horror ot being buried alive. It is usual in cases of this kind for the person concerned to leave instructions m his wiil that a surgeon shall sever some artery in order to make quite sure of death. But this is an old-fashioned notion, and our citizen of the United States is nothing if not up-to-date. He has made arrangements with the undertaker and the cemetery keeper, anil when he “dies” he is to be buried with a microphone in his coffin and a. line leading thence to the sitting-room ol tho cemetery keeper. Every day for lb months the’cemetery keeper will press a button which will sound a gong in the coffin, and ho will then listen carefully for any sounds issuing from six feet below the earth. In the event of the American not being dead but merely in a trance, this arrangement should suffice, but there are yet snags to be overcome. Sup posing the cemetery keeper should b< having “a quick one” at the very time signals were coming from below? Supposing the not-quite-dead man’s relations preferred him to be dead and buried instead of alive and kicking? However, it’s an idea!