DIED AS HE PREDICTED.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3278, 25 July 1911, Page 5

DIED AS HE PREDICTED.

HOSPITAL,. PATIENT’S PROPHECY

Just as he predicted more than a month previously a man named Frank Lugar, living at Lambertville, Pennsylvania {U.S.A.), died in the hospital at noon on May 25. Tlie case is one of the most remarkable that has ever come to the notice of medical practitioners. Lugar was in perfect health, apparently, when he solemnly told his relatives that at noon on May 25th lie would breathe his last. They only laughed at him. Then he was taken ill with some minor trouble and went to the hospital. His ailment was slight,, but his prediction had been made known to the doctors and nurses, and Lugar’s case was watched with much interest. He reiterated time and again that at noon on May 25th he would die. May 25tli arrived and Lugar was seemingly in good condition. At 11.30 o’clock he was talking with the attendants, apparently in the best of spirits. They were watching him with the greatest care at this time. At 11.45 he began to grow pale and weak, and at 12 o’clock the man breathed his last. Death was due to acute dilation of the heart, an entirely different ailment than the one from which the patient was suffering when admitted to the institution.