PREMATURE BURIAL
'•NO RISK NOWADAYS." LONDON, June 2. Miss Ruby Ackroyd, who left an estate -worth ,£21,819, that the test of a lighted match be applied to her linger nail, in accordance with the popular belief that the nails burn if death has occurred.
“ Such a tost of death is utterly fallacious,” a doctor told the London Daily Mail. ’’ The nail would not light whether a person was tlead or nlivo. People should rid their minds of the fear of being buried olive. Doctors have now such conclusive tests that it is impossible for anyone to be buried alive.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19198, 14 June 1924, Page 10
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99PREMATURE BURIAL Otago Daily Times, Issue 19198, 14 June 1924, Page 10
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