A RECORD FAST.

Lake County Press, Issue 2134, 6 September 1906, Page 6

A RECORD FAST.

FORTY-FIVE DAYS TN THE "iii \<;i;i; home." ; "Sacco." Cue Hungarian fasting man, was imprisoned in a bricked-u| compart mein measuring 12ft. bv 7it. in height at Hongler's Circus Condon, completed his fast, of If davs, thus beating all previous records in t his direct ion. The nearest approach to Suceo'; , performance was made by Succi, win a few scars ago at the Royal Aquarium, snivelled in going without fooc lor .'{'.) das s. ' Succo.'' all hough mi t lira lis in a verv low siate of health, was able I n leave lib "hunger home" as the plan I of his incarceration has been called unaided, and he walked through it j throng of friends and Cress representatives, shaking hands heartily with ; all and sundry. Ile entered his prison a healthy upright and well-set-up man—-he was formerly in the Hungarian army— I ippillg the beam at 1 Ist . 21b. , and led ii with a haggard, drawn fact and stooping shoulders, having reIdm ed his weight to |Ost. ".lb. Un ; one of the windows of his cell being | broken t v permit him I o pass out ■! "Succo" ss as given a glass of water. j "Succo's" chief recreations havi ! been reading and chess playing. Tin latter he has indulged in by means ;of duplicate boards. He drank 8." 'bottles of mineral water and smoked I '.'oil cigarettes.