Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-04-27
He WAS CRUCIFIED.
But The Terrible Ordeal Did not Kill
Hlm.
DR. DREDEnEYEn, LuE OF UTAH,
Nailed 10 the Cfo,s by Savage Native
In India, but Rescued 10 Time
by Troops.

The following strange story con.
corning a msn who will be remember.
I'd by many people Ia this Territory,
and whose body was brought to tai.
city short time since for burial, nr.
rrsrs with variations In unimpofiaut
"details In the Sunday tApfll y Issue
u the Now York World AMI the San
Francisco Examiner. We quote from
the former papeE
The body " man who had been
Ctuciflud, aud who had survived the
ordeal aud lived for years afterwards.
luit Tao ma, Wash, tho other day tor
lu,ermout at salt Lake CITY. The 70.
mains were those ~ d. William
b.. iumcyor who yusrs ago was eruci.
He'd by an unclvllizrJ tribe IN Bug.
| nah, India, The burial az Salt Lake
| City was 10y thcriir n his nrHt vile,
| Auuir Nay Siyery. Ncafyonu Evans.
| secoui wife, born Miss Penelope
| McNiokar, accompanied the body,
which was escorted % ihe train ~
mumuers ~ sixteen iia'urnitles, ~.
GLIDING 100 women, who were mem.
hurs ot kcbruca lodges, AMI the
! P0Cahontss Of tins order OF Red Men
ADD the pythlan Sisters.
Dr.. Bicdomeycr was great
fraternity man. he was member VI
nearly every secret order In existence,
snd had NO lived week longer he
would have perfected tho organization
IN Tacoma " tue Hvptosophs. but
paralysis carried him o., and with his
light hand peacefully over his breast
~ he lay Ia his c0iiiu, the Jagged scar
left by those who CfuCiiud him could
plainly be tern. Hundreds saw the
scar, aud thought II a dreadful sight.
The right hand scAr wss not as long
nH tho lett hand one ~ an inch. B1tn
were between the bones Of the thumb
and iorrhnger, Ia tho thickvst part OF
this palm. The left hand tCar wa. two
aud a half inches long, aud on both
sides Of the hauds the tcafa stood out
like miniature mountain ranges, com.
pared with the sIzu VI the hands. 'rhc
serrated top ridges VI tle ugly marks
were white aud pronounced, likosnow.
capped puaks.
When BTcdcmeyer was ofucineJ there
was no antisoptiu surgery 10 Kill the
purifying microbes In the air while
WOUNDS were being treated, aud thus
| ANNlA lNAAANAlNu AuA AhHAkuAl1 NGhNHs
For twonty.iout hours after ne wa
cruclhsj lao received no treatment 0i
any kind. When his wounds were
dressed ho was unconscious, aud for
several days Il was thought he would
die.
BfedemeyeT was quiet, uncommuu-
iCativo Pflssian. MUmbors Of his iamily
aud his close friends know OF his cru
ciiixi0n, but Tacoma people were In
absolute ignorance Of tho facts until
Bfndemeyut'a record Of his own life
WAS found among his papers alter his
death.
He was Agraduate OF the University
OF Bonn, and had previously quAliti OF
~ a member OF tue Prussian Pioneer
Engineer corps That was In 1869. THE
next year ne entered the Dutch. India
service as a mining engineer aud ex.
pert, anu advanced step by step Ia
his chosen profession until In 1905,
when the king OF Upper Burman made
him chief ems ineer OF the famous ruby
mines In tue northern part Of that
county,
Bredtmeyer had headquarters At
Mudea, IA the ruby niue district,
where big sapphifus gfs also iOuuu.
The mines are jealousy guarded, anu
king. From the ruby aud tue sap.
phife harvest tho king realizes from
500, 900 10 s75, 700 n year.
= North Of Medea In tho lofty noun.
, tAins there are some ruby mineh which
tho king had not hal ptOspooied by
such an eminent expert as Bfede.
meyer. In fact, no white man had
, ever Ventured into the mountains OF
the north, where dwslt the half.
civilized SingphOs, who, while TscOg.
! niEing the authority Of the klng,wer
. unfuly aui bArOarlc.
BredemeyeI's advent was the signal
for great excitement among the
singph0s. They had never seen u
white man, and nOtwithstAn ding
Bfedomeyor proclaimed his mission
under authority Of the king, the
5iugphOs were not satisfied, Their
cupluity got the better Ofthelr loyalty;
they thought more Of their rubies anu
D sapphirus than they did OF the kiug's
mauda.es They decided To cruelty
. the white man II he did not iisu from
= the country.
= A HANDFUL OF soldiers were with
v BfedemoyeE In all the country,
10 which then had 5000, 900 inhHbitants,
4 tue King hal but 1900 soldiers, The
SlugphOs we're not afraid " them
/ Bredrmeyet refused 10 leave The
= country until he had carried out tue
} orders of the king. Tnu Slngpn0s de.
clared war, Inu soldiers went into
ambush, only to treauhetously sur
= render the mining expert when the
/, natives HwOOpei down upon them
!, while the soldiers we're tcurtylng
about tor fe.inf0TUumtuts the natives
nailed Bfedemeyur - Gross made 0l
Two pieces OF native Oll-wood. Crude
] meets Of IRON with sharp edges aud
1 sligntiy sharp at the ont were brought
#. and, using stones for tledgrs, the ma
g uyes drove tho irons through Btede'
meyeris hands anu feet
The bafbariAns we're beside them
selves with Heulish fury, In their
: haste they horribly mutilated the ell
y rineer,s Toes aud fingers. Before the
y brutal work VI mailing Bredemeyer B.
the cross was finished he beoams
partially Unconscious. The shock wa
, ,lmost fatal. Tho last thing he re-
x memberoi was the swarming 5ingphcs,
with their HAT faces, broad skull,
. straight BLACK hair and deep brown
skius, grinuing like demons, utterlug
.gttt ahpttts and dancing anu ReHttCu Ia !.