The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-17
FREIGHT TRAIN ALONE
] CAN KILL THIS MAN
Is Run Over by Automobiles and
Other Heavy Vehicles With
Entire 1tnpul,ity.
.INsE SCI TO PAIN
His "Rehearsals' Oh Street Cause
Spectators to Shrek Aloud
in Horror.
INsENs1BLE 10 PAIN

LONDON, Feb. 10.
Two piercing screams, Enthusiastically
feminine. caused an excited crowd CT
tradesmen's boys, schoolchiidrcn work.
men, women and unemployed to mako a
rush from tho Hammersmith road toward
olympia shortly after noon yesterday.
one scream came from an elderly won,-
an, Who carried Il string bug and a small
cog; the other camc from small "gcn.
eral." who was carrying homo some wash
Ing, and had. In the emotion OF the mo-
nent, scattered shirts, collars and other
garments over the pavement.
There were Others who, being males, did
not scream. but stood transllxed with
horror. And this is what they saw.
A large motor ear, laden with six pas
| scngers,came hurting down the Hammers
smith road from the direction OF tho
Broadway and turned swiftly into the
road leading to Olympia. Then something
went wrong: the car came to u sudden
stop, and in the fraction of n second
rather rotund dark-lookng gentleman
d!ved In between the front and back
Wheels and lay on his face.
Lively "Corpsc."
The chauffeur appeared TO lose his head
and started the engine. The ons.de back
wheel, with It's stcc-studdcd tire, rosc
in the air, poised on the spine OF the VIC
tim. and descended again with a thud.
The passengers waved their arms wildly.
The dark. rotund gentleman lay PROSTATE
| for q few seconds.
| Then, to the Arrangement OF THO crowd
and the indignation of q policeman. the
I"corpse" picked himself up, smiled gem
tally on the throng, brushed nlittle mua
from, his knees and more from his back
end calmly lit Il cigarette.
When the constable learned that he had
| been hoaxcd by 81. Cabin. the French
man who makes hobby OF being run
over at Olympia, his face grew shade
reddcr. and the crowd grew hilarious
/ The school children. OF course. implorcd
1 NJ. Cabin to "do 1t again. please" but
| that gentleman does not really enjoy be-
Ing run over more than twice day. The
| car weighed one ton one hundredwelght
without passengers.
Insensible to Pain.
There is absolutely no trick and no
armor plate about NJ. Gadbln's perform
nnce
He appears to be inscnsble to pain.
1.-THE excruciat!ng fortunes inflicted by
schoolboys by twisting the wrists and
arms and bending back the Joints OF
angers, nnd that old favorite. the COM
| preston of the first and third Joints OF
the little finger. make no impression upon
NJ. Cabin beyond producing rather
tired smile.
NJ. Cabin does not caro- for hansoms
/ MS much as motor cars ard ''growlers,"
At private performance recently tho
wheel OF a hanson containing six per-
cons stuck for some time In tho middle
OF his spine.
II only too!s to being run over regu.l
ilarly less than q year ago." N. Cabin
said. II am lyric artist by profession.
4 Wht!o singing q, the Casino do Paris
/ ! met a troupe OF Jaoaness !.u-!!tsu
! wrcs.lers.
while amusing ourselves orc night he.
/ hind tho sconcs tho ,Yrestsegs We're nmnA.
cd to find that their ordinary holds
which are meant to inlet pain Oh an
opponent who retuseu TO be conquered.
did not hurt mo IN the least.
i "some one 1okng!y said that a cab
4 could ruin over me without hurting mo,
and 40 tried It. ] startled poopla III
] the Dolls de Dou!ogno more than ohea
i before was engaged ut tho Tol!es. Dsr-
! gere. cannot account for my peculiar.
it!cs. bin suppo.o my bones are cur!-
ously made