BURIED ALIVE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 2 April 1927, Page 9

BURIED ALIVE.

JV'OT to be outdone by the gentleman who jumped off Manhattan Bridge a few days previously, and the one who stepped into an elevator shaft on the 17th floor when the elei valor.-w-as.-.at -t-he—eiglith—floor—in- New-

York, Hamid Bey, 24, had himself buried alive in a regular grave -at Englewood, near New York, on. the New Jersey side. He remained under six feet of earth for three hours and lived,, like the other two, to tell the tale. Unlike the others, Bey, an Egyptian fakir, did it in order to tell the tale. Bey was lowered into a grave iu Walter Shannon's front yard without even laying himself out in a casket. He undressed, wrapped himself in a white robe, and, lifting his eyes toward heaven, he swallowed his tongue. Then he toppled into the' arms of two attendants. They lowered him to the bottom of the six-foot hole, and placed some boards Over him. Four labourers tossed on the dirt.

It was raining, but this did not prevent some 500 persons front

standing around the grave to see what would happen. Nor did it prevent Senorita Heriberta Martinet from executing a Spanish fandango on top of the grave. It was explained later that she thought she ought to do something. The Egyptian was buried at 1.15 p.in., and at 4.7 p.m. the dirt was removed; he was lifted out as stiff as a poker; and his press agent made a few passes and Hamid Bey shuddered. “Hudini,’’ he exclaimed, and woke up. An electric hell was buried with Hamid Bey in case he should need assistance. This was retrived by his press agents, and it was announced that Hamid Bey could be interviewed in a few minutes.