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Show A REM 1BKABLE CA.SC A rruntilraiilft Woman Llalmrd to I Ivf trimonl load. Alientohn', Pa., Nov. 23 It xai generally rt ported here lait ulc"it ill it -Mr-. Adam WUchter, uf Whitehall, who, it Is clalmed,ha3 lived for 23, days without food, was dead, aud that a post mortem ex-sminatlon ex-sminatlon would le made within twenty-four hours to determine if twtMblo the exact cause of death. A correspondent found the rejert not only untrue, but the ituman was ai tar- S'ly btltrr than she bad been for three months. Mr. Wiichttrhas been at times extolled as tbe met wonderful txdniple cf fdtlng ever known. Iicrcau has been compared with thoe cf all other fastc:, ancient nnd modem. Again she has been denounced as a fraud who took this mcaus to deceive the credulous and lo profit thereby as a religious monomaniac, in who trickery her husband was an assistant and accomplice; ac-complice; iu a woman to anxious for nctunety that shs deceived her huband and deceived her phfsl-tlan. phfsl-tlan. In all these nninudversions tbe question of motive was never fully dismissed or investigated, nor was thu assunittion cf religious manoaiauia logically carried to a conclusion. After the birth of her third child Mrs. Wuchter'a health Ivgan to fill and In 1S30, or thereabouts, she U-gan to receive medical attendance. attend-ance. Up to five yews ago she took medicine at intervals for what was I resumed to be pulmonary trouble. This condition continued up to March 0,1 SS9, whtn Mrs. Wucliter avers and is sui ported in her statement state-ment by her husband, that she had cut a slice of bread from a loaf, buttered but-tered it and attempted to eat. Ble found difficulty in swallowing, but this was attributed to sore throat. This continued for weeks and Mrs. Wuchtcr found It neccsary to have all her food mol't-ened mol't-ened before she coul I swallow it. On April tth of tho present year she experienced so much pain In at' tempting to swallow softened bread that she had to give It up, after repeated re-peated trial. Since that time, 2S5 days, her husband says that she has not, to his knowledge, taken as much food or water as he would consume in three days. The patient sneaks In a sort of whistling whiper, loud enough to lie heard a distance of five feet. When tbe bandage Is taken from her eyes it is seen tliat the eyeball are turned up so far tbat the pupil is not visible. A clasi cf water was brought, and as It was raled to Mrs. Wuchter'a mouth she apparently detected Its presence, for she went into a spasm. When she had recovered re-covered she took about half an ounce of sweet mineral water, which seemed to refroh her. although It all ran out of her mouth. "I think a little goes down sometimes," some-times," she whispered, "but r. can't tell; I have no feeling In my throat, nothing tut pain, nothing but pain. I would like to eat buttered bread, but I can't." |