MAN BURIED ALIVE.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19179, 9 December 1927, Page 9

MAN BURIED ALIVE.

AMAZING EXPERIMENT IN GERMANY.

(BY OABLK—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTEIOHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z CABLB ASSOCIATION.)

BERLIN, December 7.

Perhaps the world's most amazing attempt to break a record is being carried out at the sports ground at Stuttgart, where a Dusseldorf resident, claiming knowledge of the methods of Indian fakirs, was buried alive and will be dug up on Saturday, when his voluntary interment will have lasted 120 hours. ,

The experiment was carried out under proper precautions to prevent fraud, and the police and doctors wero strongly represented. Before stepping into the coffin, the man ate substantially, and was overhauled by doctors and searched for beef extract, lozenges, oxygen flaßks and other things, inconsistent with his claims. He thereupon nonchalantly drove half a dozen hatpins into his cheeks, ears, and neck, and calmly lay in the coffin, enveloped in a band cloth ten yards long. The ends were sealed to prevent removal. The authorities insisted that a small wooden shaft, nine inches square, should be left in order that the man's face would be visible through the glass top when the coffin was lowered. The grave was then filled in.