The evening times., 1899-06-14
BURIED ALIVE UNDER
THREB Feet OF EARTH
Harry Beno to Occupy a Grave
Nine Days.
His Only Feed Air Supplied Through
Wooden Tube.
Put Under Ground i'm a Comm Soon
After Midnight on Monday
Morning.

Chicago. June 14-Harry Beno, who was
buried in grave soon after midnight Mon
day morning at Jackson Boulevard and
Kedzie Avenue. will remain under ground
without food or water for PIG hours. but he
will be supplied with air through a wooden
pipe.
His grave was dug and the burial took
place in the presence of large crowd OF
persons more or less skeptically inclined,
but who were unable to find any suspicious
flaws in the arrangements. Benos last
statement was that the feat was made pos
sib.e by series OF induced sleeps. which
he termed trance slumbers." These last
twelve hours each. and at the end OF eich
he converses with the audience present
through the wooden tube. which is his
only connection with the outer world.
Thousand of persons visited his grave
yesterday and today and conversed with
Bero through the wooden tube HIS race
was visible through a glass placed in such
a position that his features, though not
his body could be seen. Beno says MS
trance slumbers" maintain him, and that
il would make no difference TO him II ne
had neither light nor air.
1t was possibly O'Clock on Saturday
night when two gravediggers appeared at
the place selected and began to prepare
the grave Beno, who boasts that he Is
without the sense of feeling. taste, OF
smell. was all ready for the ordeal, LOT
he was dressed in deep black he tcoR
with him as his only solace pocket MIR
ror He slipped into the casket, paie
farewell to the crowd. and was lowered
into the hole in the ground. The cover OF
the coffin was nailed down, and the earth
filled over it. leaving nothing but the ven
tilation tube above the surface OF tne
ground.
Beno awoke at midnight last night anu
talked to the crowd. He will remain buried
nine days and will be watched closely by
scientific men.
Beno declares that it is impossible Tor
him to experience pain, and that ne can
drive an awl into his skull so deep that ne
can hang a chair on its handle hednot
needles passed through his flesh cause MIN
no annoyance. he says. Beefsteak tastes
the same to him as eggs. he declares.
while the only way he can tell Paris green
from sugar is by the color.
Beno says that he recently ate large
quantity of Paris green. following it up
with doses of arsenic and belladOnna. Then
he smoked a cigar and smiled at the doc
tors who were waiting to pump him out II
he began to get i'll. but the deadly drugs
had no effect on him.
In the Cook County Hospital Beno as
tonished the surgeons some time ago by
allowing them to cut his head open with
out taking an anaesthetic. He had broken
of an awl in his skull. and he wanted the
piece OF steel removed. He said he did
not feel the operation.
Beno says he can pass into state OF
coma at will. and sleep for days without
nourishment. He declares he has sold his
body in advance to Bellevue Hospital. in
New York, for 900. Upon his death the
institution is to receive the body and a
study will be made OF it.
Beno is wrapped in two blankets in the
casket The grave is about three feet deep.
the ventilating shaft is at the foot Of the
coffin, and an electric light is so placed
that his face can be seen at all times.
He says his mother is an Egyptian and his
father an Englishman.