The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-07-05

] paralyzea and hence it was not a co... n "sS ~
E alysis, but charcoal 3D. If We NAV con- "a,
Her left arm and her left leg were cov cow nora
. charcoal skin and her face was oss wiz
while for fourteen years nothing, has na ooai
through her eharcoGli=ed Systematically se'
for four years-during which she has besy n 10
der DIR. Perkins study and examination ul
During these four years Certainly sbe h.,
eaten and drunk, with al petite-as mucS ~
such ladies, in her insulated unmarried s,o. :"
are supposed to eat and drink; but what Oh,
ate and drank were all exuded from her sk in'
this Charcoal formation of her left limbs a,
lace, or sweated out through her skin in da.r
bloody drops. The whole neigbborhood -.
doctors, the clergy in and out of Oneida. v. .e
Mortified, at last-and the fame of such a "..s
at once passed from the obscurity of the rr vase
districts to the grandeur and story of the p,ss.
city. great
A broker in Wall street heard of tb;. ox.-
ordinary eusu' nafnree-and fearful that Barr
um' even IN pursuit of mermaids, c;r.g..
giantesses' &C., would be ahead of him in ~
troaucing 10 mankind and the Faculty of NJ
1ork TINS wonderful Miss Perry, 1.-THE Fl Dora "
do of his Wall street imagination be hr Dofa,
at once to Oneida. hurried
DR.. Perkins and he, at once cor,
the illimitable depth of coming veal,h a ;s
more than Chang and Eng of mopstros;,; ~ tois
and they together formed, if not a con. ana
ship, an understanding. RoomsY pSs.nef.
rooms-in an elegant mansion on Pon... esaht
among the upper ten of New York wsra o'iee'
ed; for Miss Perry was first to be ;rt..I rent,
to the upper ten before the under ten wy. e.
hear Of her. DR. Perkins seated bimso,s ~ 10
with his big book Of records four wears f,I, re
the charcoal marvels. 'o'i VI
Or. Mott, the scientific the world ror,
ed, the venerable DR.. Mott-not the v,unc ~.
NOUS, but the Mentor, the sage-was bronnt.
70 see what even he never read of or. heard ~
nor saw before, in any hospital, Amer;can'
european. or Asiatic. The doctor came and
saw and II not conquered, was dumb str;cLan
ana pronounced it 3 wonderful, incomnreban-
sloie case" Dr. Perkins rubbed his hands IN
ecstacy. The Wall street broker was ejec,r;
n ne with coming visions Of shining glory. Rnt
Ut. Mott, cool, cautious, clever, critic,, Dc
~ consultation of Doctors-and s.lbs
aculty met inthe Fourth street rooms to ron.
suit over the ''wonderfur' Miss Perry
DOCTORS Parker, Csrnochan, Barker. Jacob;
"ooo' fl!n1 and others-among them Dr.
Sayre-gathered about the wonder md boar,
Dr. Perkins read his book in part and inst;tu,aJ
personnel examinations, the nature and cboroo'
Ter OF which are better fitted for a medical
journal than for the Thousands of promscuons
eaders of the New York Express.
THE CASE.
fuise ~ to 49, Respiration all right. Teeth
tongue, mouth all right white not blacl :
Leg, from knee to foot all black. Arm from,
upper socket joint, all black? Body. white
Vagina full Of charcoal. Rectum full Of cbar-
coal. Pieces of charcoal in them 10 fonr
inches long, inches in circumference ctr etc
In brlet-Miss Perkins was only an ANNA.
TED, breathing, living mass of charcoal inside
'nd out, and so full ofcharcoal that every pro-
less of natural human action was SUSPENDED
Except the eating and breathing. She did NOT
breathe charcoal-but nothing came from ber
xcept charcoal. The doctors were sstonisbe5
Mortified, of course. DR.. Perkins
'as aggrandized into sublmity. The wan
treet broker would not have taken S5() O0O
Or the speculation.
But-Dr. Sayre-that saucy DR.. Sayre-
nat roguish DR.. sayre, -slyly went to work
pom Miss Perry's charcoal skin. There was
crack in the skin of the dear creatures ankle
land Doctors 1t seems carry scissors in their
ockets, as Editors do,) whereupon the ruth
IS, reckless doctor slipped out his scissors,
1t into Miss Perry's charcoal skin. and peal
on inch after inch Fit. Miss Perry win
a. screamed-but the savage doctor kept on
inning and skinning-as if q savage, after
taking off ascalp-and anon, he
a IN his hand whole sections of the dear Miss
'rry's precious skin
honstrum, horrenduna! MrG5ize dictut Her
IN pee'ed on-as peels an orange or an ap-
e-out with this difference, though, that God
axes orange and apple skins, whereas, Miss
mad L.
wen doubtless in the New York Mills Fac
y (oneida county, and cotton cloth gum
ON to her legs, in layers-white underneath
all charcoal blackened, on the epidermis Of
. artificial skin.
When Miss Perry now being thus peeled. she
lrply whined over, and shrieked over the bor-
le wicked Doctor-but the Doctor ney.rtbe.
3, would peel and did peel off the cotton
th gummed on skin-to the horror Of DR.
'klns, and to the amazement of the astoupd-
"faculty" But Doctor Sayre. did NOT.
lid not stop here. He added largely to the
ferrous pieces Of charcoal and pebble stones.
1erKins mad already taken from the Maid
Inc trophies and treasures of the four wears
lying sasan, and, what is more, with an
well known to the Faculty, he
ionstrated, that Miss Perry lived. moved.
ID, performed, just as "the rest Of man
d."
r. Perkins ranted and roared; the Faculty
grave Faculty laughed-Miss Perry whin-
md prayed and the Wall street Brokers'
on of an FL Dorado dissolved. Ereur on,-
-and Miss Perry left her Palatial Fourth
et quarters to 60 to Bellevue-to be in hos
l there, among the so called poor of the
!, where DR.. Sayre has her, under his eye,
ing her on mush, peas, and other expand
and he has not doubt, that
little helping medicine, in day or two
fourteen years theory of living only by
'g and drinking will all explode.
here never has been so great an imposition
npted in this city and the only mistake
r. Perkins was in calling in the New York
llty, ard not applying directly to Barnum.
Cunnln gham's "bogus baby" performance
thought to have immotralized our New
city but the Oneida charcoal skin, got
!. the rural districts, beats us metropoli.
out and out
TERRIBLE A1rAiR--A YoUEG MAN KILLED
IS OWN BROTHYp =, na.,~..:.