ADVENTURE OF A YANKEE REPORTER.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1355, 30 January 1884, Page 2

ADVENTURE OF A YANKEE REPORTER.

; « .' When the Siamese twins died, Philadelphia surgery had the honour of dissecting them; and under the peculiar circumstances — one having, died of horror consequent on his brothei 's death — the public were in a fever-heat of expectation to learn whether they could have existed apart Various were the artifices resorted to by the "specials" to gain a knowledge of I this fact, the doctors have sternly declared that they would not admit the press, as it looked like pandering to the morbid appetite of the public. .Medical student and full-blown doctors with duly " vised " certi6cates from other cities ■ increased to an alarming extent. Hospital porters were offered premiums to vacate their positions for one day only. But all was of no avail ; the doctors closed the doors, and the operation began. At its conclusiou, it was • ascertained that the twins could have undergone a successful severance in life. At that interesting moment, or in the debate which followed, one of the doctors observed an unusually lifelike hue upon a subject waiting for dissection. But what was his horror, and indeed the horror of them all, as the remark fell from his lips, to observe the corpse suddenly jump up and make for the door. He opened it in time and fled, followed by the enraged doctors. A cab was waiting outside, and into this popped the supposed corpse, to be driven like mad to the railway station, where the complacent special safely arrived with the knowledge that he had made a big «• beat"