Show HUNGER STRIKER PUZZLES MEDIC Vitality of Fasting Prisoner Cause of Wonder er to Officials is Amazed at the continued vitality o of Paul Von Bode year old convict who h has g been on a hunger strike for Cor 17 days K R. E E. Davis warden at atthe atthe atthe the state penitentiary and the prison physician were investigating Friday to see if it the m man n was obtaining food smuggled t to him from the dining room by other prisoners Ordinarily the physician said saida a a. a man marl of his age would be very weak after 17 days without food Von Bode h however wever shows little signs of his prolonged prolong d diet of black coffee and wat water r except that he has lost los considerable weight Although having nothing to base their assumption on other ther than Von Bodes Bode's continued vitality the warden and pris prison n physician indicated Fri day they thought he might be obtainIng obtainIng obtain obtain- Ing food without their knowledge But In direct opposition to this th theory ory is the fact that on one occasion a small amount of sugar was pu put in his coffee in an attempt to give him hini food tood in this wa way Von Bode detected de de- it immediately and refused to drink the coffee The pris prisoner ner spends nearly all o ohis or of his time on his bunk in his cell refusing refusing re reo fusing using to go to the dining room with the other prisoners In another week or ten days at the most Von Bode will have become come very weak according to the p prison is n clan cian and at that time forcible feeding will be resorted to officials said although although al al- al though Von Bode has insisted that he will n not t be fed in that way The prisoner started his hunger strike on the morning of ot July 5 in protest of his two years ago on sec second nd degree murder charges in conne connection Uon with an illegal operation performed on on- ona a girl by a doctor and his wife now now serving ser life Ufe sentences In the state penitentiary |