The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-28
CRUo1F1ED, BUT DID NOT DIE.
Savage Singphos in India Nailed by
His Hands and Feet to the Gross,
and Then He tainted.
From the New York World

and Then He tainted.
From the New York World.
The body of a man who had been cruel
fed, and who had survived the ordeal and
lived for years afterward, left Tacoma,
Wash, the other day for interment at
Salt Lake City The remains were those
of DR.. William Bredemeyer, who years
ago was crucited by an uncivilized tribe
in Burmah, India. The burial at Salt Lake
City was by the side of his first wife Annie
May SaverY- Mearyone-Evans His second
wife, born Miss Penelope McVickar, &C
companied the body, which was escorted
to the train by members of sixteen fra
ternities, including 100 women, VINO were
mem0ers of Rebecca lodges, and the Po-
cahOntas, of the Order of Red Men and
the Pythian Sisters.
DR.. Bredemeyer was great fraternity
man. He was a member of nearly
every secret order in existence, and had
he lived a week longer he would have
perfected the organization in Tacoma of
the Heptosophs But paralysis carried
him of, and with his right hand peace
fully over his breast, as he lay in his cof-
fin, the Jagged scar left by those who
erueided him could plainly be seen. Hun
dreds saw the scar, and thought it a
dreadful sight.
The right hand scar was not as long as
the lett hand one by an inch. Both were
between the bones of the thumb and fore
finger, in the thickest part of the palm
The left hand scar was two and a half
inches long, and on both sides OF the
hands the scars stood out like miniature
mountain ranges, compared with the size
of the hands The serrated top ridges Of
the ugly marks were white and pro
nounCed, like snow-capped peaks.
When Bredemeyer was crucitied there
was no antiseptic surgery to kill the pu-
trefying microbes in the air while wounds
were being treated, and thus avoid irri-
tation and unsightly scars. For twenty
four hours after he was cruciied he re-
ceived no treatment Of any kind. When
his wounds were dressed he was uncOn-
sCious, and for several days it was
thought he would die.
Bredemeyer was quiet, unCOmmunica-
tive Prussian. Members of his family
and his close friends knew of his cruciHX-
ion, but Tacoma people were in absolute
ignorance of1he facts until Bredemeyer's
record of his own lite was found among
his papers after his death.
He was a graduate of the University of
Bonn, and had previously qualified as a
member of the Prussian Pioneer Engineer
Corps That was in 1862. The next year
he-eutered the Dutch-lndia service as
mining engineer and expert, and advanced
step by step in his chosen profession until
in 1868, when the King OF Upper Burmah
made him chief engineer of the famous
ruby mines in the northern part of that
country.
Bredemeyer had headquarters at Me
dea. in the ruby mine district, where his
sapnhires are also found The mines are
iealously guarded, and all the precious
stones belong to the king. From the ruby
and the sapphire harvest the king realizes
from 100000, to SO, 900 year.
North of Medea in the lofty mountains
there were some ruby mines which the
king had not had prospected by such an
eminent expert as Bredemeyer. In fact,
no white man had ever ventured into the
mountains of the north, where dwelt the
half-civilized Singphos, who, while recog-
nizing the authority of the king, were un-
ruly and barbarlc.
Bredemeyer's advent was the signal Tor
great excitement among the Singphos.
They had never seen white man. and
Notwithstanding Bredemeyer proclaimed
his mission under authority OF the KING,
the Singphos were not satisfied. Their
cupidity got the better of their loyalty;
they thought more of their ru0les ana
sapphires than they did Of the kings
mandates They decided TO cruelty the
white man if he did not fee from the
country. ..
A handful of soldiers were with Brede-
never. In all the country, which Then
had $500. 900 inhabitants, the king had
but ii. 600 soldiers. The StngphoS were
not afraid of them Bredemeyer refused
TO leave the country until he had carrleu