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“...Governor
of the island at the time the event occurred, who based her
account .on an anonymous pamphlet entitled " Death Deeds ” •
by Mr. Robert Reece in the columns of Once a Week, and, peri
haps, by many others. I myself heard the story from the lips
of Sir Robert Bowcher Clarke, who was present at the opening
of the vault, and my own father, though not present at the
, opening, was in the island at the time, and made mention of
(it to his sister in England, as is evidenced by a letter from her
bim which is still in my possession. Some months ago
Mr. Andrew Lang wrote to me that a similar disturbance among
coffins had taken place in the public cemetery at Arensburg
on the island of Oesel, in the Baltic, in 1844, as detailed by
R. Dale Owen in his " Footfalls on the Boundary of Another
|1{ World. Numerous high authorities were quoted for the
Verification of this event, and it is stated that an official enquiry
was made into the circumstance, and the report was signed by...”
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