The Graze for Sensationalism

Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 156, 4 July 1896, Page 1 (Supplement)

The Graze for Sensationalism

A Revolting Exhibition.

The craving for new sensations had led the Parisians- to patronise the Cabaret de la Morfc, where people ate and drank seated at coffins in lieu of tables. Now the horrors of thab establishment have (says a * Standard ' telegram) been thrown into the shade by the exhibition of a man hanging by his neck from a cord attached to a hook in the ceiling of a low-class Cafe Concert. It was advertised gome days ago thab M. Durand, a former actor, would remain suspended for thirteen days and nights at the Concert Duclerc. Accordingly, four days ngo M. Durand submitbbed to the ordeal, to bhe strains of merry music accompanying the vulgar songs which had till then formed the principal attraction of this low place of amusements. He continued in the same position bill Monday evening, when the doctor ended the revolbine show. The establishment had during the four day* been crowded from noon till two a.m. by people of a low class. When he was taken down, Durand was found to be in a very critical condition. During the continuance of bhe exhibition M. Durand took no food, and the only. reßt he had obbained was the placing of his foefcon the staves of a ladder for a quarter of an hour a day, while he inbaled some ether and was rubbed with a sedative preparation.