Show IT WAS A TRANCE The Case of a Boston Young Lady Who Was Pronounced Dead Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch BOSTON May 22 Close upon the mysterious terious death of Washington Irving Bishop comes the strange experience of a Boston young lady Miss Kate Patten wentytwo years old and daughter of Enos Patton 14 Oak Grove Terrace She has three times passed into a condition that the physicians agreed was death and revived vived and she bids fair to recover her former health Thursday last she was taken ill apparently with tonsilitis She grew rapidly worse and Dr C E Stone he regular family physicain i i pronouncei it a severe case of diphtheria Everything was done to relieve the sufferer but it was of little avail The patient continued ltte ayai patent constantly con-stantly to sink and unable to speak and kept her eyes always closed Finally her breathing ceased sh l si arri throbbed faintly and then stopped The doctor said that Miss Patten was dead but to reassure the family he called in Dr Dodge who said life was extinct The doctors were about to depart when suddenly the young woman moaned and opened her eyes and staring vacantly about the room at the weeping family said in a low voice I a not dead I am very weak but conscious She was made comfortable and the phy Ehe lfortble sicians departed They were summoned a few hours later The same strange proceeding pro-ceeding again occurred This time the physicians were more convinced than ever that the young woman was dead They declared heart failure to be the cause of death and there were no hopes now The patient again rallied in spite of their insistence in-sistence The lady again showed signs of life and the trance passed away The physicians are utterly at a loss either how to vindicate themselves or to explain the marvelous recuperative power Then came another spell more terrible and convincing than the others Even the family were compelled to admit that the end had come The jaw dropped the heart stopped and prespiration ceased and pro arations for laying out the body were mae Bandages were adjusted about the head and everything was in readiness for the undertaker The patient was in this state an hour when she again showed signs of life Shortly after the doctors pronounced pro-nounced her comparatively out of danger and in hopeful condition Mr Patten stated that his family were sUbJect to nervousness but there was an entire absence of any signs of this trouble His daughters case convinced him that the cause of this seeming demise was due to what the physicians said was heart failure He has a morbid fear of burial alive and ha made provision in his will that in case ot his own death that he shall cremated Dr Stone stated that the girl on Sunday was suffering from what was supposed toe to-e tonsilitis A closer examination showed signs of diphtheria The trancelike state no doubt was caused by epilepsy The hearts action stopped and he was of the opinIon that life was extinct a were Drs Dodge and Whitney I is possible the girl will recover grl similar case but even more stranger occurred in this city some years ago A young woman of a wellknown family suffered a severe nervous shock She was undoubtedly drugged The case was most distressIng and the patient continued in an unconscious state for over two years In another case the patient died five days after the attack which was induced by great mental distress |