A TOUGH SWALLOW.

Inangahua Times, Volume III, Issue 78, 16 February 1877, Page 2

A TOUGH SWALLOW.

There is at present confined in the Gundagai gaol, New South Wales, an individual who rejoices in the euphonious of Charles Le Grande Redmayne, He is serving a sentence of one month for steals ing a ring under peculiar circumstances, from James Ford, of Gundagai, in May last. From the evidence given when the prisoner was charged with the crime be* fore the police court, it appeared that he was arrested in Yass, on tbe 18th Decern" ber last, and remanded to Gundagai. In reply to the charge prisoner said he was an acrobat, and earned his living by travelling from town to town giving performances, which partly consisted in swallowing any article the audience might desire. Ford gave him the ring, and he had swallowed it, but could not get it up again, and, therefore, of course, could not return it to the owner. He further asserted that he could swallow a bagful if he got them. He is at present being treated by Dr M'Xillop, visiting surgeon of Gundagai gaol, with the view of making him disgorge a large steel albert chain and a common brass ring. The chain can be distinctly felt at the bottom of tbe stomach, and he says it is now nine months since he swallowed it, and it is the only one he has bad any difficulty about. He says he has had two pounds weight of jewellery in bis stomaob. and that he has had watches in his stomach as long as twentyfour hours. Mr Benton, tbe gaoler, has a collection of steel and brass albert chains, pen-knives, brass rings, &c, which he said he had succeeded in making tbe partent vomit by means of powerful emetics, A link of one of the steel chains had been broken by tbe action of the stomach. Redmayne is an intelligent young man, 23 ycar3 of age, and he gave a graphic and amusing aoeount of his exploits. Dr Killop entertains fears that it will not be possible to remove the chain that still remains in his body, and that it will eventually cause inflammation and death.