SPANIARD’S CLAIM
Two Months in a Coffin. The 'Spanish newspaper Seculo tells how Alvero Esteva, a Spanish manufacturer with insurgent sympathies, played dead in Malaga Cme i: ry for two whole' months. Mr Esteva said he hid in an empty coffin hi the family tomb to escape Government troopers during Govern ment domination of the seaport. He emerged when the insurgents took Jie town. Each n'glit, si.iid Mr Esteva, he heard the screams of per: ons being executed in the graveyard. He sub sisted on food his sisters concealed in wreaths which they laid each day upon graves. His hair, jet black two months be (ore, turned a snowy -white.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 400, 6 April 1937, Page 2
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110SPANIARD’S CLAIM Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 400, 6 April 1937, Page 2
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