LIVING CORPSE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 8 December 1927, Page 5

LIVING CORPSE

GERMAN’S VOLUNTARY INTERMENT CLAIMING A FAKIR’S POWER TO BE DUG UP TO-MORROW. [By Cable — Press Assn. — Copyright.] . (Received 8, 8.40 a.m.) Berlin, December 7. Perhaps the world’s most amazing attempt to break a record is being carried out at the sports ground' at Stutgart, where a Dusseldorf resident, claiming knowledge of the methods of the Indian fakirs, was buried alive and will lie 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 police and doctors were strongly represented. Before stepping into the coffiij the man ate substantially. He was overhauled by doctors and searched for beef extract lozenges, oxygen flasks, or any other things inconsistent with his claims. Tho voluntary living corpse thereupon nonchalantly drove half a dozen hatpins in his cheeks, ears, and neck and calmly lay down in the coffin, enveloped in a band of cloth ten yards long, the ends being sealed to prevent removal. The authorities insisted that a small wooden shaft , nine inches square should be left in order that his face might be visible through a glass top. When the coffin was lowered the grave was filled in.—(A. and N.Z.)