WALKING “CORPSE.”
REFUSED TO DIE HEALTHILY. How a Moscow workman refused to die with decorum, but lived to face charges of swindling and with having been drunk and disorderly, is related by the Moscow correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. The workman assured the Court that the doctor attending him told him, “Prepare to get your little box and bake yourself in the crematorium. You’ll die to-morrow. Don’t excite yourself. Try to die healthily, as a good Marxian should. I’ll leave the death certificate now in order to save my goloshes by making another visit.” The worker felt better in the morning, so took the certificate and obtained the funeral insurance money. With this he bought a bottle of vodka. When he returned home to his tenement, the secretary sa.id: “But you’re only a corpse. I can’t allow corpses to live here. You’re not really alive, but only pretending.” “Don’t you bully a proletarian con>se,” yelled the infuriated worker. The police intervened and arrested the vodka drinker.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 106, 4 April 1934, Page 8
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