Buried Alive.

Hastings Standard, Issue 33, 4 June 1896, Page 4

Buried Alive.

Mr J- TitehJ'.j, the managing director of the Royal Aquarium, is ever to the fore with a novelty—startling or otherwise. His latest sensation is burying a man alive for >ix days. This was done recently, when A VVootton, a subject in the past trances at this resort, was sent to sleep, or, as the advertisements go, buried alive. This was done by Professor Flicker on the approved style adopted by the Indian fakirs, with this difference, that a shaft was extended from the coffin —buried beneath 7ft. of earth—to the summit, so as to enable the spectators to view the gruesome interior. A week later the resurrection took place, and when, at 10.10, Professor Flicker commenced the awakening, the concert hall was crowded with an interested yet somewhat sceptical audience. To test the authenticity of the undertaking, a certain medico, prior to the awakening, inserted a needle into the subject arid vouchsafed the information that Wootton was, to all intents and purposes, dead to the living world. Electricity was utilised ere the awakening ws a pronounced fact, but the audience was satisfied as to the genuineness of the hypnotic influence. Wotton. when awakened, seemed very weak, but a decoction, in which milk was the prime factor, was administered as a restorative ; brandy was .subsequently given by desire," and had the requisite effect. Although a gruesome and uncanny form of entertainment, it is nevertheless a draw to sensation mongers.

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