Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-08-06
The .Entranced Hungarian.

Macungle, Pa, special: After $50 days,
John Guyamber, the entranced Hunga-
rian, who has been in the county hospital
for that length of time, has spoken, and
gives some account of his life before the
time that he was found wandering about
in this village. 1t will be remembered
that Guyamber's case has been mystery
to the medical fraternity since the time
he came here. For many months he did
not open his eyes, and lived only upon
what food was given him in liquid form.
People from all sections of the country
visited him, as well as the medical fra
ternity from. this and other places. In
short, he was the most-visited man in
this State Every effort has been made
to get him to talk, but of no avail.
On the 22d of April last Guyamber
opened his eyes for the first time, and
kept them open four days. He made his
famous jump from the third story of the
hospital on April %. On the 26th of
April he again closed his eyes, and did
not open them again until May 20, and
then only for few hours, after which he
went to sleep and remained thus until
June l. He then opened his eyes, but
did not speak until June 26, when he was
given flower, which caused him to shed
tears and say that he was thankful, after
which he relapsed into silence, from which
it seemed nothing could draw him.
Frank Laskowski, of Allentown, who
took great interest in Guyamber's case,
has had correspondence with all the PO-
landers in this territory in order to find
who could induce Guyamber to talk.
This he succeeded in doing to-day. One
Joseph Sebut, who is from the same place,
and who was schoolmate of Guyamber's,
was taken to the hospital. He began q
conversation in the Sclavonic language,
and in few moments Guyamber began
to talk. He kept up the conversation for
some time. He gave his story as fol-
lows:
He has father and one sister living in
his native country, having lost two bro
theirs, both in their younger years,
through death, caused by brain fe-
yer. He further said he re-
ceived liberal education, hav-
ing a fair knowledge of music, being a
good violin player. He arrived in this
country about two years ago, and verified
the account in the Virginia papers that he
was IN the employ of Mr.. Porter, at Char
lotteville. He related the incident of the
fat old negro woman putting pepper in
his coffee as joke, which he thought
was poison. After that he had no rest.
He always thought they were endeavor-
ing to administer poison through his
food. He was foreman of the works, and
he thought the workmen were opposed
to him, so he left as though for his own
safety. From there he went to Balti-
more, where he remained with a friend
for period of two weeks. He then left
Baltimore, and from that time he remem-
bers nothing that happened until within
four weeks ago.
Of all the experiments to raise him
from sleep, of his twenty-five feet jump
and the abscess on his head he remembers
nothing. Ever since he has been con-
scious, which he thinks is about four
weeks, he said he had an idea he was
imprisoned, and continually thought
what wrong he had committed to cause
his incarceration and constant watch.
He was assured that he was not impris
oned, which caused him to brighten up
and become more cheerful. He spoke
again this morning. He is quite weak
vet. AS soon as he is well enough he
will go among his own cOuntrymen. to
work.