Zaro Agha’s Body
POST MORTEM IN INTERESTS OF SCIENCE.
United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, Juno 29.
The Daily Mail’s Istanbul correspondent says the first relative to visit Zaro Agha’s body was 65 years of age. His youngest daughter when asked to consent to a post mortem in tho interests of science, demanded that the body have Moslem burial, where upon tho authorities telegraphed the Government ceking permission to hand tho body to doctors. Meanwhile, several cables from America offerod high prices for the body. Although Agha claimed to be 160 years of age, doctors ostimato that he was 140 to 145 years. Agha claimed to have boen married fourteen times and remembered at least thirty-six children.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIX, Issue 7506, 3 July 1934, Page 9
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