STABBED BY DOCTORS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 71, 24 March 1928, Page 11

STABBED BY DOCTORS.

MUTER CONQUERS PAIN.

AND STOPS BLOOD.

VIENNA, February 22.

Hundreds of physicians gathered to* day at headquarters of the Austrian Society for Psychic Research and watched in amazement as Paul Diebel, thirty-year-old Silesian miner, had daggers, nails and knives thrust into his body without evincing pain or producing a flow of blood. The spectators included many women, some of whom leaned forward with opera glasses to catch a better view of the miner as he was pierced. Others fainted at the sight. This was the first time a group of qualified scientific men had witnessed his exhibition. They pronounced it genuine. Diebel, the spectators asserted, thrust a dagger through his foreann so that the instrument protruded on the other side. He showed his arm around the room before he withdrew the dagger. Nor once did he wince and he did hot shed a drop of blood. The miner next "by concentration of will power" caused drops of blood to trickle through the wall of his stomach, following with expulsion of blood from the knee. His most dramatic act was to make a large cross in blood appear on his back, the blood being forced to the surface apparently by exertion of will power.

Diebel concluded his exhibition by allowing one of the spectators to shoot a large metal bolt into his chest by means of a catapult. He then calmly withdrew the missile with no show of pain and permitted physicians to examine the bloodless wound produced.