Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-07-29

age. Doubts, however, again arose,
aud the woman, made oold by the
immunity she had experienced in
the first Investigation, consented to
q second watching. Her watchers
this time consisted of Sir Oswald
Mosley, barenct, the Rev. Leigh
Richmond, DR., Fox, aud several
other welI-known gentlemen. The
bed containing the woman was
placed on weighing machioe, and
it was thus asoertained that she reg
ularly lost weight daily. At the
expiration of the ninth day of this
strict watch the woman was sinking
fast AID DR.. Fox told her she would
certainly die unless she took food.
She then confessed ner deception,
and admitted that she had "occa-
sionally taken food during the past
six years" Her daughter had con-
trived, when washing her every
morning, to feed her by using tow.
els made very wet with gravy, milk
or strong arrow-root Cruel and had
conveyed food to her mouth when
kissing her.
ONE OF THE sADDEsT CASES ON REC Ord
as well as one of the most interest.
ing. as sho wing that deception can
be practiced almost beyond the pos
sibillty of detection, is that of little
Sarah Jacobs, better known as the
"Welch Fasting Girl" Sarah was
bora May IL, 1857. In her early
years she was bright, Intelligent
gi,l, and strongly inclined to relig.
ious studies. On the 10Th of Octo>
Der, 1867, after lit Of sickness,
which began the previous February,
it was announced by Ger parents
shat she had ceased TO take auy food
whatever, and the fame of the fast.
ing girl soon spread throughout the
world. She was watched closely by
clergymen and other parties, but so
ekilltul was tbs deception played
that sha was not detected. Not
withstaudlHg her alleged fasting. she
continued to improve in health, and
her parents deeked her out with gay
ribbons as she lay in the bed, and
exhibited her to thousands of pill
grims who visited their farm house
atLaiiherwadd, near Newton, Wales.
A public meeting was called and a
comn'tteo appointed to watch the
child. They Watched her two
weeks, and reported that durll z
that timo che received no food. Al
ter this report the crowds visiting
the fasting girl Increased, and the
parents were rapidly m ,king fo-
tune when doubts again were raised
az to the genuiness Of the manifeeta-
tions, and it was decided 10 have
another investigation by commit.
tee of trained nurses from Guys
hospital, london. During the
watcht the parents were not allow
ed to approach the girl without be.
ing previou ly searched, and the
nurses had the sole management OF
preparing the room, bed aud Pc.
tient At all times. On the oh Of
/ Decemb9r, 1869, the watch began,
and on the 10Th, seven days after
httlo Sarah Jacobs was out of her
mind and
DYING OF STARVATION.
The parents wero told that She
was starving, bur they hold to thei.
text, said she bad ofton showu the
came symptoms, and refused 10 give
her food The child ASKED for none.
and the following day she died oil
absolute hunger How she was fur
nished with food during the two
years and two months that she sue
ceeded in deceiving the world has
never been discovered, hut the fact
that she died when actually deprived
Of nourishment, is ample proof of the
deception. The inhuman father and
mother were convicted Of manslaugh.
ter, and sentenced the one to twelve
and the other to six months 10 prison
at hard labor.
The latest case Of reported long
fasting, that Of Miss Mollie Fancher,
Of Brookly, is too well known to re,
quire more than a passing notice. It
is claimed by the friends of this lady
that she had subsisted nearly 1G
years without food, and also that she
possesses mysterious powers of seeing
and reading through sealed envelopes
No sufficient test of this case has
ever been made by competent per.
sons, and it remains a mystery to
this day Persons have lived with.
out food when water was accessible
for many days at time. On the
10th of March, 1855, twenty-five per-
sons were buried beneath an avail
anche in the Alpine village of Berge-
molbetta, in Piedmont. They were
not dug out until the 18th of April
following, when all were found dead
except three women, who had found
some hay, fed goat with it and thus
obtained a pint of milk daily. OF
which they sustained life for month.
Ia Belgium, i'll the year 1858, -four
colliers were confined in o coal pit
without food, for twenty four days
They were taken out alive on the
twenty fifth day, having subsisted on
the water which trickled from the
walls of their prison Numerous in,
cidents of this kind might be cited
bat no established eases in which a
man has lived any great length Of
time deprived OF both food and water
are recorded.
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