MISTAKEN FOR DEAD.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 269, 14 November 1907, Page 3

MISTAKEN FOR DEAD.

WOMAN NEARLY BURIED ALIVE

There appeared in a South Wales daily newspaper on September 12th last the following advertisement:—

Rees.—On September . 11th, at Nora Street, Cardiff, Caroline, the beloved wife of Charles Eees, cab proprietor.—Funeral Saturday, at 2.30 p.m.

The funeral will not take place today, says the London Daily Mail of the 14th September, for Mrs Rees is still alive, having very narrowly escaped premature* bnrif.l. She jies xmconscious, and apparently is in extremis, but she is still living. Mrs Rees has been suffering from cancer for many years, and on Wednesday her medical attendant prepared" the family for the worst. That evening; Mrs Rees suddenly changed, and presented every appearance of having been released from her long sufferings. The husband and the sickroom attendants, believing that death had.taken place, informed the woman's stepson, who, prepared the foregoing advertisement, gave tli? necessary instructions to the undertaker.