THE TWINS OF LOCANNA.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1291, 26 November 1886, Page 3

THE TWINS OF LOCANNA.

A Vienna correspondent states that John and Jacob Tocci, the twins of Locanra, who have been shown in almost every city of Europe as the successor of the famous Siamese Twin 3 aro dying in Prater. Ihe boys resemble each other exactly, and are now in their tenth year. John and Jacob are separate as far as the sixth rib, and have one abdomen and a pair of legs between them. Jacob moves the right leg John the left The twins cannot walk, and keep their balance by lacing their arms round each others neck. Jacob eats often and heartily, and is the healthier of the two, and to all appearances it is he who keeps his brother alive. Two days ago the twins quairelled over a toy and John grew so excited that his heart blood suddenly ceased to flow,and he changed into a condition of complete leihargy, from which he kid, not awoke on the following morning..; The boy.suffered from the same complaint i a year ago in Berlin, and Professor Virchow then declared that a recurrence of the. letharatv would certainly put an end to 1 the twin's life. A number of Vienna' physicians are observing the malady but they entertain little hope of John's life, and it John dies Jaco : i must follow him to the grave. The twins as they lie in their bed ofler a stvahge contrasts Jacob with feverish eyes and red face seems to harbor all the blood that has retreated from Jobu's lifeless body. The conscious boy cries incessantly, because he has often heard Professor Virchow's remark repeated, and knows that his brothei's deiith is but the harbinger of his own. The poor creatures are meeting with ihe same fate that some time ago put an end to the Siamese twins, the second of whom died of poisoned I blood-vessels, after having spent six teriible hours with ■ the corpse of his brother. The advisability of an operation separating :the living from the dead was .discussed at the time; but before, a resolution could be taken death had done.its wpvk,. The twins of Locana, who for the last eight years have, travelled to all the worlu's shows, were to have left shortly for New York, where Barnum is said to have engaged them for a vear at a salary ot 30,000fr. In the event of their death the parents have sold their bo*iy to a London, anatomical museum for a price of 1,8,000.