The Montreal woman who married a corpse

    Here's a lovely story for you on this fine day.

    It involves a prank undertaken by medical students at the expense of a Miss Mulcahy in 1889. 

   A Mr. Husson, medical student living in a boarding house on Bleury had taken a fondness to Miss Mulcahy and visited her often.

    Husson went back to visit England whereupon his friends at medical school then proceeded with their heartless prank.

   They sent a message to the Mulcahy residence saying that there was urgent business to attend to at a city hotel. 

   A man with a powdered wig met her at the door to tell her that Husson had fallen extremely ill and wanted to marry her before he died. 

    The young woman was very shaken by the situation so she came close to the man, and held his clammy hand but his body was almost entirely covered, including his face. 

   Soon after the ceremony the clergyman and father both checked on the new groom and said that he had already died.

    They said they would take her to England but she bolted from the sled at Victoria Square.

   Only later did she learn that the father, clergymen and all other involves were medical students who had conspired the whole event and the husband? It was a dissecting corpse taken from the medical school.