A Berlini cafe in which.a fasting man lay in a glass case was visited by 300 000 people. For 44 days the curious enter? temment went on, and the citizens of Berlin marvelled at; the .endurance of the man, who subsisted so lpng on nothing but cigarettes and water. Now a Court of law has • decided that he swindled them. After 28 days 6f cigarettes and water he began to take chocolate, which was smuggled into him. The Court fined him £50..f0r deception, but as he received £1000 for his performance, he is £950 to the good.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 135, 12 June 1929, Page 6
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