Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-07-07
,RUCIFIED BY sAVAGEs.
phe Excruciating Experience of @
 German Adventurer.
,a ventures Among the nloodthirsty slngphos of Burmah and Is Nailed Through the Hands and Feet
 to Cross.


 to Cross.
 4 short time ago William Brede- mevsr, Prussian by birth and a min lne expert by profession, died in Ia Asona. He was a quiet, unobtrusiYe. skort of a chap, says the San Francisco Examiner. and considered by those
 who knew him to be an everyday eiti- Fen of the commonplace type. He died ef naralysis in the most orthodox way, huf when the undertal1ers began to arepare his body for burial they found s most curious scar upon his right hand. At one time there had been hole made 6v some sort Of sharp instrument in the nalm. going in at one side and coming 1,,+ at fine other. There was soIae spec s.,Iation in regard to its origin, when suddenly one of the undertaken asr s,stants uttered an exclamation o8 as- Punishment and held up the deceased's 3aft hand. There was q precisely iden- 4iea1 scar upon that also Men do not .,enarallv have bullet holes through both hands, and Bredemeyer had also eifntlar scars upon each foot. The right Rand scar was not as long as the left .Hand only by an inch. Both were be- A4veen the bones of the thumb and 4orefnger, in the thickest part of the hahn The left hand scar was two and one-half inches long, and on both sides of the hands the scars set out like tnountain ranges, compared with the e;ze of the hands, the serrated top lridges of the ugly marks being white 'and smooth, like snow-eapped peaks. .Thev were exactly like the marks of cru eiAxion. and little wonder, for crucifed Rredemeyer had been, although he had never told the story toanYone, and 4he fact was unknown until Brede- meyers record of his own life was Hound among his papers after his death.
 Bredemeyer was graduate of the University of Bann and had qualified as d member of the Prussian pioneer en- nineer corps. That was in 1862. The next year he entered the Dutch-India service as a mining engineer and eX- bert, and advanced step by step i'll his ;chosen profession until 1868, when the Eing of Burmah made him chief engi- neer of the famous ruby mines in the northern part of the country. Brede- meyer had headquarters at Medea, in the ruby mine district, where big sap phires are also found. The mines are iealousIy guarded and all the precious stones belong to the king. From the ruby and sapphire harvest the king realizes from fifty thousand to sew enty-Ave thousand dollars year. North of Medea, in the lofty noun Gains. there were some ruby mines which the king had not prospeeted for 0arious rea-oas No white man had ever veptured into the mountains of the north. a.aong the half-civilized, Bingphos, who. while partially reeog- nizing tae authority of the king, were nnruly and barbaric. Thithef the king kent Bredemeyer.
 His advent was the signal for gfeae Excitement among the singphos. They had never seen a white man. and, not :Nithstanding Bfedemeyer announced Ais mission under authority of the hing, the Singphos were not satisfied. They decided to cruelty the white man B2 he did not flee the country. A hand fnl of soldiers were with Bredemeyer, perhaps fifty all told, but then there &ere Ghtee million five hundred thou .sand inha abitants. Bredemeyer refused to leave the country until he had earried out the orders of the king. The Singphos declared war. Bredemeyer's eoldiers went into ambush, only to Surrender the mining expert when the natives swooped down upon them. While soldiers were SC urrying about flor endorsements the natives nailed .BredemeYer to a cross made of two pieces of native oil wood. Before the brutal work of mailing Bredemeyer to ahe cross was finished he became partially unconscious. The shock was almost fatal. The last thing he dis tinctly remembered was the swarming singphos, looking like devils, with their flat faces, broad skulls, straight black hair, deep brown skins. When Bredemeyer had beci. nailed to the cross the natives prepared to raise it and fastened the end nearest his feet Into the ground. At that instant the soldiers returned with reenforcements and routed the natives. Bredemeyer was carried back to Medea. The occurred at about noon At noon the next day his wounds were dressed The rainy season had not set in and 1t was very warn and under the unfortunate conditions it wa3 feared would set in. He was cared for tenderly under directions from the king and being accustomed to great hardships he speedily recovered, but never again ventured into the land of the Singphos.
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