THE DEATH OF IRVING BISHOP.
A CHARGE OF MURDER.
(Per Electric Toleoiiaph— Copyright.
(Per Press Association.)
(Received 10 p.m., May 17th.)
London, May 16.
The widow of Irving Bishop, the thought-reader, asserts that her husband was dissected whilst in a cataleptic trance, and adds that he had frequently lain in a state of catalepsy for a period of 48 hours, Mrs Bishop states that the autopsy was performed before his friends and relatives were able to interfere. The will of the deceased gentleman ordered that his body was not to bo touched until decomposition was in an advanced stage. The widow accuses the medical gentlemen who performed the autopsy of murder.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 5010, 18 May 1889, Page 2
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