IN THE DEVIL’S CHAIR
GIRL’S TERRIBLE ORDEAL. Fraulein Charlotte Bottcher, a Berlin schoolmistress, 24 years of age. recently had a'terrifying experience in the Tyrolese mountains. She lost her way in a mist while picking berries, and eventually found herself in a fainting condition on a small rock called “The Devil’s Chair,” overhanging a precipice. When the mist, cleared she realised it was impossible for her to retrace her steps cr to go any further. A slight movement would have meant a fall of 800 feet. The young woman, amid storms of snow and rain, clung to the rock tenaciously for three days and nights without, food, till a rescue party saw her. Another day and night passed before they succeeded in dragging her from her perilous position. A doctor who examined Fraulein Botter declared that it was the most extraordinary case of “will to live” that he had [ ever experienced.
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Southland Times, Issue 19656, 5 October 1922, Page 7
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150IN THE DEVIL’S CHAIR Southland Times, Issue 19656, 5 October 1922, Page 7
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