Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-15
TEN-OAY SLEEP ENDS
Grave Gives Up McRae and He
Is Resurrected.
FIANCEE SEES HIM DUG UP
Heart Action Indication of Exhaus-
ton, Say Doctors.
NO MOLD FOUND ON CLOTHES
Subject Comes to Life Hungry-Sen-
sations While Hypnotized as of
Continual Falling.
NO MOLD FOUND ON CLOTHES

as it fake?"
At least 5000 people asked that question
at Luna Park last night, when Colman
McRae was ressurected.
McRae was literally dragged from his
grave. where he has been sleeping for
ten days, and brought to consciousness in
plain view of a struggling. painting mob.
which, in spite of expressed incredulity.
refused to dispense until the young man
had been fully restored to normal condi-
ton of life.
BY actual count 1880 persons peered
down the tube into McRae's grave be-
tween the hours of half past and a
quarter of o'clock. Many times that
number formed huge semi-circle around
the little corner where the grave was.
Every brilliantly lighted attraction" was
practically deserted after s o'clock. The
one drawing card was the young man
asleep in a pine coffin five feet deep In
the ground
Sweetheart at Graveside.
At $50 o'clock guards roped the crowd
back. The task of opening the grave be-
gan. The crowd pushed and fought with
the intensity of their curiosity. The
closely packed mob showed up to the
brink of the opening. A score of stalwart
guards stretched iron chains and forced
the people back with riot measures.
Not the least of the attraction was the
young mans f1ancee, Miss Eugene Haml-
ton. She was the only person other than
the grave diggers allowed inside the ropes.
She was apparently indifferent to remarks
directed at her, her eyes riveted on the
rapidly deepening hole from which Nc
Rae was to be released
Bundha kupparOw got into the grave
when 1t was sufficiently large to permit.
He scattered the torn shreds of a green
leaf on the youths face which appeared
through the hole in the coffin lid Then
the coffin was split open with axes
1t was sOlidly made and put to flight any
theory that McRae has been getting in
and out of 1t every day. Examination of
the coffin showed this to be impossible.
Crowd Witnesses Restoration.
The restoration took place in a little
theater near at hand. Whether or not the
audience thought 1t was being fooled, an
enormous crowd paid % cents apiece for
the privilege of entering to see what hap
pened. AS large a crowd awaited outside
McRae was carried into the theater by
back door on a .stretcher. stiff and COW
cred with clay. 1t was plainly seen that
his beard which is light and fuzzy, had
grown during his interment. His eyelids
were blue. but beyond that he looked
healthy.
AN army surgeon who had followed the
stretcher in. felt his pulse. He said it
was much accelerated. and that the sleep
er's condition indicated exhaustion.
The audience awaited developments with
keen interest. Bundha kupparow leaned
over and pressed his entire weight with
his thumb on McRae's upper lip. Then
passing his fingers down McRae's body
several times he concentrated his mind
McRae Comes to Life.
In less than ten seconds McRae began
to writhe as If In great pain In less than
a minute he had staggered to his feet.
He lunged toward the Hindoo with the
silly expression of a person who awakes
from a sound sleep and who tries to ap-
pear perfectly wide awake.
"Hello.' said Bundha.
'Hello!. Get me some water" said Nc
Rae.
He could scarcely walk. He was car
ried out into the back room of a little
palmistry booth. where a light lunch
awaited him. Although ravenously hun
cry. he could eat but little
Here 1t was that two reputable physi- !
clans examined him privately for their own
satisfaction They found his heart action