DEATH CAUSED BY FEAR

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3714, 12 October 1926, Page 2

DEATH CAUSED BY FEAR

JIOTJDTM’S startling Til gory, Tear and not poisoning hy carbon-dioxide, g (he cause ol' i he deaMi of miners and other persons trapped in airtight compartments. This startling assertion is made hy Mr Harry Houdiiii, the famous stage magician and opponent of spiritualism, who had himself been sunk in a sealed eofTln in a swimming pool for an hour and a-half to prove his conieution Or W. M“Connoli, <>f Philadelphia, and of. the United Stales mines Denari incut, who examined Houdini atler lir was released from the eotVm, expressed himself amazed with the. demonstration, and declared that lloudini's theory might cause import mil clkuilh's i f| salt.’ly indium* 3,1 miiK'K. . , . 'the eofliu in which lloiidim was sohicred nj> was computed to contain 54,398 cubic inches of air. 'Ha' oxygon in that air. according to the scientists, should alt have been useo up in three or four minutes; but Houdini breathed it for ninety minutes, and emerged smiling. "Anyone could du.jft* bo declared afterwards. "The important flung Is to believe ihai yon are safe, not to breathe deeply, and not In make unnecessary movements." , During his stay under water lioudim kept in communication with watcher,-, by a telephone .wire, by means of which lie indi--11 <I ever', few minute- Dial lie was all right.