Show STRANGE DEATH APPETITE Morbid D Graving For Food Which At Attacks Attacks Atie tacks ie Condemned Men Dien In Itt Senti eU Death appetite te k the name by Dy which keepers kepers designate the tie strange craving for food toed which attacked a ton con murderer murden r IB to Jail jell at Camden Jf N J Samuel Van Stavern was hanged tor fot wife murder April S So Three weeks ago ap about abaft the time the death th watch was set Van Stavern developed one of the most moat abnormal and at the same name time capricious appetites app ever eYer given to a man under lea sen tence of death Van keeper demies deAN de res his file strange 1 craving as 8 the tile death appetite To a certain extent all aU condemned murderers develop this abnormal appe Ute tite before befog death he ht said Bald to the Sunday SentineL At least tm tit t the men n I have ever han have had bad it it although none perhaps to th extent that Van Stavern suf sut fers fets f ers I Its ita It death the terrible haunting nerve nene racking fear of death working world n on oa them that sets every faculty of mind robed sal aad a body on a rack They sat eat t not so ao much be N because because i cause they dire cart fo fos food but simply toM to satisfy M ut Y a torturous craving era for tor something I The nerves Herres of the stomach are disordered by the train strain of the tile death fear tear just justan at s san I an the rho other nerves access of the bod are un tm unstrung I strung The nerve access ne rr cry I out and anel this thie a 1 produces g a sensation tike like hunger This Th This is the only explanation n I know m for it but the fact tact I feel pretty Artily sure nure will be tit vouched for by anybody who has had th the c care of men condemned cond to t death Of Ot course a secondary reason may be tk found in the fact that eating diverts divert the be t mind of fife prisoner a little tittle just as do cIo card playing and walking watking the floor UI I have never nevi Men seen a condemned mur mar murderer deter derer yet that eat Nt well and sleep sl cep well Van V lO Starn like every ery prisoner upon n whom the death watch has bas been en stet set t w wa wu es allowed all the favors that mercy con cen concedes concedes cedes to Justice Among these was wu the privilege of ordering ran anything to be had bad badat at the restaurant r n t which supplies D the in inmates mates of the Camden n Jail Jan JailLet jailLet Let Van Stavern have anything any thin on the fire restaurant bill of oP fare fan It If he can set get the money let Jet him film bay bwy bu whatever he wants ants at ato other o ber place ordered Sheriff Sh ria Sells when he be heard that the tha death a ap appetite lad bad j wised seised the prisoner on r Van Vall Stavern tavern smiled and rubbed MM hands ban together in iu n a satisfied sat way wM the order o r was made known to w him Eat Why CRy you ou never saw uw a s wan Harr that can an eat fat the things thing that Ill have ave sea seat from boas now on oa ha he declared They IM treat tm l me all tight right ra la here bat bIrt you yer know kItow the rules allow only eely two twe wa waa a a lay Fat r net tut particular about sheaf what I have taus to eat but 1 tell you what t I 1 would like flee to have enough of or it it Inquiry developed d the fact that the y rule was waa suspended m In hr Van case some time before Delon and that no so ta t was set upon the tIle food that he be In Inte spite spit e e t all ail Van Vas StaVern mumbled Tm rm terribly hungry some soma sometimes times In a appearance ap the condemned d teas man a aa was wasa a terrible p picture lure of a unman being g rid ridden den by the furies of f death He Ile was wu a big hard bani and athletic de despite spite spile the confinement of six aIx months in Jan jaA v ue ste looked as albs strong as asas asa asat as at a ox otc the tN terror in the guttering gray eyes and sled in fD the Ule drawn d skin i about the flee temples temp was indescribable I A great pallid circle cI le rimmed each eye lye and d a toe Ave tweet sweat t stood out oat In beads on OD Ms his forehead bist and around his hi ath He Ht began at once to make tasks out oat a i menu and sad the writing of or tone four of these dally was wasen en Oft one of or th Ut kite chief of e ex tenee ee HA Hit wrote them than th on slips apps of paper often otteA aday a aday aday day or so to ahead and ancl every werY order was WW enough in la quantity to t supply tappi a whole whole family fa t 1 of ordinal eaters eaten s Here Her is b asa a sample saMpie sa menu said lei to be made reads out by b Van a Stavern for one day m to addition to which be lie had tweets sweets and fruit fruK in Ja by a who his hM cell dally l ll y r BREAKFAST Waffles Three Oranges Bex ea Toast Teut Tenderloin of Beefsteak Glass GIMI ef et Cream erm Cocoa Cigars and Cigarettes LUNCHEON H Bananas WhIte Waito Fresh 11 Tomatoes Graham Wafers Walen Iced leed Tea Taw or Aced Tongue Sandwiches Create Cream Puffs Cigars DINNER B Blue Bins Points PoW Mock Turtle Sou Soup Boast Chicken Potato P Green PIM Peas Celery Plum Piam PI Pudding tad and Pie Ice Ile Cream Crean Fruit Cigars Cl Beef Bart and Onions On Coffee Coget and Fruits Frans Cigarettes When the tAe foot fool was wu brought brou bt m In and set Nt down on tile the deal taW table In to the th little cage ca at e that Van Stavern ate and aDd slept in la he tell feN feNto to like Ike a ravenous ruou creature Apparently tb it did not tat occur to toO o trim him to leave lea anything on the plates Between meals he often threw shrew down d wa a hand band o of ot cards long ions enough e eto to eat a down doen banes nAD a mince Dd vie pie or er other delicacies that friend M asked aak th good Ond keepers to bring ng up uD to Urn ld Day Dat pity in and day dy cia out oat tIM the death ddt appetite goaded him Im terribly hungry sometimes be said Bald to a 8 reporter His expression loR was almost precisely that of a caged wild animal except that it te k a little more appealing Van Stavern wore fib ha usual hunted boated look hU ri i lips 1118 drawn dra D in tight his hie set setAres gray Ares eyes shining underneath his file her heavy vY reddish eyebrows A young priest plot walked slowly J un P and down van sprang up like axe an as animal threw his hili cards down and walked over to the tM bees bars barsHow How do I spend speed my JQ time Ume Mostly on my knees saying my prayers frem Pram morning till night he said wrenching I at the bars tiara nervously What else el is 16 there for tor a fellow la ia lamy lasty sty ray fix to dos do You see nothing else elM Win will do me any BY good No Im not net re Yea Yes I am now no of course but only lately In the morning as soon as I wake I fall on my knees kneed I do dothe dothe dothe the priest will tell teU you Ou that We Ve all alt have to die Oh of ot course everybody says that But other people dont have bave to die the death that Im lOIn grins to die dk Its a horrible death for a man maR like Uke me sae Why Im a bunch of muscles mu I could lift a ton it tt seems to 0 me Of course I eat a lot when I can eD get getiL it iL Everybody dose doN that And Im rm terrible t hungry sometimes But it Itt ladt t true that Im rm spending my last Jut days in e good I 1 like Ute plain food and plenty of or it Its this way I have to stave have some something thing to think about Theres my re ligion of Nurse course e and aDd theres the cards card and after that theres nothing to hin bin hinder binder hinder der a man from getting sit alt he can ean to eat bL That little tittle restaurant over aver there theredo do they call that much of a restaurant I eat e t my y head Bead off oit ov owe over r there K ti I tried I T wont say what I beat best to eat I dont know anything Im ter terribly terribly terribly hungry hUDT sometimes I tell you that Yes Yea Im rm here bore for killing my dry wife wih I shot her ber three thre times I was crazy drunk We te e had not been living liviD together er for tor quite some time She fhe went home to her fathers rathers Why once onee I see fife that woman for tor three years yearn Three years sad and thal a fact tad Well I saw aw sawa a woman w coming along alo the street I Isaid Isaid said aid to a boy Is Ia that Mrs lies Van Slav Stav Slaver Savera er era nr Yea Ya its U Mrs lira Van Yen Stavern sold said he Then I shot her And Dd whets when she Jibe feU fell I shot bot her twice more You Yo had something against t your wile wife Why Lord me met Nobody suet ever had bad anything against plat that woman I loved loyed that woman Drunk just cruy crazy drunk If I a locked me up before I I shot ahot her why I never rover would have done it Its not my fault Im not a bad lied manVan man manVan manVan Van Stavern turned and sad slouched away from the grating gratin his hb huge frame rolling as 5 he lie walked his hl suspenders falling fasting loosely on his collarless shirt He shuffled the pack of or cards cania a mo moment meat ment looked uneasily side Bide to side Seems Seem to t me its getting about din dinner dinnee ner nee time he said Bald to a man sprawled out on OR the th corridor floor door rIn In Camden where effuses re Van Stavern had lived JIved aU all his life the talk is mainly on the strange mania manta that drove him film to spend the last Jut days d ys of ot fits ilia life late in feast rl feasting ing inordinately y yVan Van Stavern surely surel got all he want waat wanted wante ed e for once on they say sa with mingled accents of curiosity and awe as stories are retold of the huge platters platten of Toast rout beef heel and plum pieta pudding that the con cor condemned man ate for his lala drones dinner ill |