IRVING BISHOP'S DEATH.
EXTRAORDINARY ALLEGATIONS*
DISSECTED WHILE IN A TRANCE. Press Association.—Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. London, May 17. The widow of Irving Bishop, the thought reader, asserts that her husband was dissected while in a cataleptic trance, and adds that he had'frequently lain in a state of catalepsy for a period of forty-eight hours. Mrs. Bishop states that the autopsy was performed before his friends and relations were able to interfere. The will of the deceased gentleman ordered that his bod was not to be touched until decomposition was in an advanced state. The widow has accused the medical gentlemen who performed the autopsy of murder.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9368, 18 May 1889, Page 5
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104IRVING BISHOP'S DEATH. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9368, 18 May 1889, Page 5
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