The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-05-04
ALIVE.
A Man Hypnotized by Carraway and
Buried for Forty-Eight Hours-A Won
dcrf.l Exhibition-Mfnd Reading and
Hypnotism Beyond Belief.

Buried at 1 80 last night in Professor
Carraway's private cemetery, corner of
Main and Monroe streets, Charles M.
Brown Of Atlanta, a bright young.man,
who will be resurrected in the Park opera
house tomorrow night at $50.
A man buried alive in a public lot in the
city of Jacksonville, and a thousand peo-
pie standing by without a word of protest!
Such q scene was witnessed last night
at the opera house. Wonderful! Marvel
Gus! Beyond belief! Such were the ex-
pressions heard all during the entertain
men of mind and hypnotic tests.
The performance was preceded in the
afternoon by a street parade with the
casket in which Brown was buried. The
First Battalion band led the procession:
then came the coffin On a float, and
Brown, Carraway and others in carriages.
This attracted great attention, and when
the performance began a large crowd was
ing of Captain w j. DriscOll, Walter G.
Coleman. T. H. Harris, R.. Fleming Bow
den, ]. D.. Burbridge, j. r. Porter, Frank
Payne. Detective L. M. Ray and Police
man d. A. Williams, took seats or the
stage before the mind-reading tests be-
gan. These tests were remarkable, and in
every instance proved successful.
After this came the hypnotiZing of a
half dozen young men. among them s.
Ed. Gerkin and Charlie Pigniolo, we'll
known in the city. This performance left
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only made all the young men do things
hat kept the audience in a roar of laugh
ter, but stuck hatpins through the ears
Of two of the subjects.
One Of the young men was then put in
a hypnotic sleep and, his body being per-
fectly rigid, was placed on the backs Of
head was supported by the back of one
chair and his feet by the back of the
other chair. While in this position. a
piece of granite weighing a fraction over
400 mounds was n11cpd on his chest and
Benjamin F. Sheftall, the we'll known
blacksmith. e~ndeavored to break the
stone with a 12-pound hammer.
Sheftall struck with all his might, and
at the seventh blow only stopped because
the audience and the committee would not
allow him to proceed. When the immense
mans chest. Professor Caraway awaken
ed him with a snap of his finger. He
showed no signs of having any knowledge
Of what had TRANSFERRED, and nearly threw
four men off the Stage.
The closing act was the putting of c.
M. Brown into a hypnotic sleep and bury
tired in q light neg,igee shirt and a pair
of white linen trousers. He was cool and
collected, and it only took the professor a
few seconds to put him into a deep sleep.
Torrance, had been in plain view of the
audience, was thoroughly Examined by
the committee and representatives of the
press. 1t was only an ordinary casket
with no false bottom, and had nothing
concealed inside for the subject to eat.
AS soon as Brown had been put to sleep
Undertaken Charles A. Clark and his as
sistant, T. NJ. Burns. took charge and
placed him in the coffin. The professor
then impressed it upon Brown that he
must sleep for forty-eight hours, but said
that he could turn over in the coffin at
will when the circulation of the blood
stops on one side from lying in one posi-
ton too long.
A committee of citizens then bore the
coffin to the grave and saw the interment
completed in every detail. After the
grave was filled with earth the body could
be plainly seen through the four-inch
tube over the head. The coffin was light
ed by an electric light in another tube
near the foot. h sleep appeared to be
natural, and the professor declared there
will be no bad effects to the subject from
the burial.
The grave will, no doubt. be visited to-
day by thousands who will wish to view
the body. Twenty-Five cents a look will
be charged, and the body will remain in
the grave until Thursday night at s
o'clock.-Jacksonyille TiUes-Dnion, April
18th.