ANOTHER VIEW.
On the other hand, the evidence of the famous Home Office expert, Mr A.' j. Pepper, was to the effect-that burial alive was very infrequent, if not unknown. The chairman pf the committee put him this question V Take the case of a person whose symptoms simulate death after great loss: of blood; supposing that person we're, buried; he would not recover consciousness, I suppose." * . - -- : Mr Pepper : Those case'sf of; revival in' coffins, of course, are purely mythical. Are there any possibje eases '.where you might have a mijvement of the corpse, a muscular 'moyeinent after death?— lt"may'happeiJ/Y'" ; ** : That may give rise to the idea of burial alive? — Certainly; that m "' quitb' possible, '■ *" '-. " -". Could you have aijy muscular mover ment which might produce sound io the coffin? — I do not think so, It is not a possibility ?— I believe not.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 23 September 1909, Page 4
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142ANOTHER VIEW. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 23 September 1909, Page 4
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