She died suddenly without having any abdominal pain or any symptoms indicative of abortion.

The body was examined twenty-four hours after death and was seen to be dark, discolored, and the abdomen distended.

There was no sanguineous discharge from the genitals, but at the time of raising the body to place it in the coffin, a fetus, with the umbilical cord, escaped from the vagina.

There seemed to have been a rapid putrefaction in this ease, generating enough pressure of gas to expel the fetus as well as the uterus from the body.

This at least is the view taken by Hoffman and others in the solution of these strange cases.
Antepartum Crying of the Child .-- There are on record fabulous cases of children crying in the uterus during pregnancy, and all sorts of unbelievable stories have been constructed from these reported occurrences.