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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 194, 11 September 1888, Page 2

The public may rest assured of the absolute impossibility tl;at Captain Bailey was alive when the outer case of the coffin was opened at Waitara, Many explanations have bean suggested of wh it Father Cassidy and Mr Dixon saw or imagined they saw. Their truthfulness need not be at all impugned, but there is the very best soieutlfic authority that whatever occurred there and then could not have been au indication of the existence of life. Cataleptic patients have been known to simulate death, so as to deceive the most experienced; but such cases have always occurred when the body was exposed to the atmosphere. It is quite impossible that, under any oonditiou, life could have continued to exist from Saturday afternoon to Monday night when the body wu enclosed in a hermetically-closed case. The vita) organs of even a cataleptic patieqt must be supplied wiih oxygen, or real death w|U quickly replace the stimulated form arising from cataleptic seizure. That more vigorous efforts at resuscitation might have proved successful, if made when the body first came ashore on Friday, is a matter altogether apart from the reported occurrence on Mon] day at Waitara,—l’oat.