"THE LATE MR STOCK."

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12502, 31 March 1909, Page 4

"THE LATE MR STOCK."

A most extraordinary case of resurrection of the "dead" occurred at Ararat to-day Csays a telegram to the "Sydney Daily Telegraph" of the 9th inst.). Henry Stock,: aged 48 years, who, for some time, has been siiftermg from cancer,- according to report, "expired., on Monday evening between 7 and 8 o'clock, at his" hut at iVloore's Beef: Some neighbours' hoard the "deceased" calling out, and . a Mr J. Haris, on going out to ascertain the cause, 'found Stock lying in a paddock, apparently very ill. Harris^ removed Stock to his hut, where he, according to the Press report, died in Harris's arms. After a lapse of 20 minutes a medical certificate was obtained, a.nd a coffin was ordered, and the necessary burial space in the local cemetery- was purchased. To-day, when Stock's sis !»r went to prepare her brother's body for- burial, he, to her great astonishment, suddenly kicked off the blanket that was covering him, sat up pii the bed, and "asked for a couple of boiled .'egs/ which, on being provided, he ato with relish. An Ararat newspaper to-day published . Stock's obituary; ...