A REPORTER'S SHARP BUSINESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8538, 11 April 1891, Page 2 (Supplement)

A REPORTER'S SHARP BUSINESS.

HOW HE SAW THE OPERATION. When the Siamese Twins died under very peculiar circumstancesone having died of horror consequent on his brother's death the public were in a fever-heat of expectation to learn whether they could have existed apart. , •

Various were the artifices resorted to by the "specials" to gain a knowledge of this fact, the doctors having sternly declared that they would not admit the press, as ib looked like pandering to the morbid appetite of the public. Medical students and full-blown doctors with duly authorised certificates from other cities increased to an alarming extent. Hospital porters were offered promiums to vacate their position for one day only. But all was of no avail; the doctors closed the doors, and the operation began. At its conclusion it was ascertained that the twins could have undergone a successful severance in life. At that interesting moment, or in the debate which followed, one of the doctors observed an unusually life-like'hue upon a subject waiting for dissection. But what was his' horror, and indeed the horror of them all, as the remark fell from his lips, to observe the corpse suddenly jump up and make for the door ! He opened it in time and fled, followed by the enraged doctors. . A cab was waiting outside, and into this popped the supposed corpse, to be driven like mod to the railway station, where the complacent special safely arrived with the knowledge that, he had made a big beat."