White Fakir

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 222, 8 December 1927, Page 1

White Fakir

MAN BURIED ALIVE AMAZING TEST By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. Reed. 9.5 a.m. BERLIN, Wednesday. Perhaps the world’s most amazing attempt to break a record is being carried jut at a sports ground at Stuttgart, where a Dusseldorf • resident, claiming a knowledge of the methods of the 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 a fraud. Police and doctors were strongly represented. Before stepping into the coffin the man ate substantially, was overhauled by the doctors, and searched for beef extract lozenges and oxygen flasks and other things inconsistent with his claims. He thereupon nonchalantly drove half a dozen hatpins in his cheeks, ears and neck, and calmly lay in the coffin, enveloped in a band of cloth ten yards long, with the ends sealed to prevent removal. The authorities insisted that a small wooden shaft nine inches square should be left in order that his face should be visible through the glass top. When the coffin was lowered the grave was filled in.—Argus.