ASSAULT BY A “ CORPSE.”
REMARKABLE STORY FROM RUSSIA.
The papers in Paris recently printed a remarkable story of an incident which occurred in the church of the little village of Niechtovo, RussiaA priest and a clmir-boy, according to St. Petersburg telegrams, were spending the night iu the building in order to watch over the- body of a dead man lying in an open coffin. In the middle of the night the choir-boy ran out shrieking, and quakingly told the alarmed peasants, whom he met, that the body in the coffin had risen and attacked’ the priest, knocking him down.
The truth appears to be that a dangerous criminal, nursing a grudge against the priest, had entered the church earlier in the evening, taken out the corpse and hidden it. and taken its place in the coffin. Then when a suitable opportunity arose lie jumped out of the coffin and attacked the priest. t-'o far lie has escaped arrest.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3398, 13 December 1911, Page 8
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158ASSAULT BY A “ CORPSE.” Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3398, 13 December 1911, Page 8
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