| Show i fOR jt L Le Pendu a Human Eni Enigma Enigma En En- i mar Could Be Bo Fat or Thin or Dangle From a Noose I There Theio died in in Paris Pari the tho othor other day a aman man who whose c life may be s said id to exam exem exemplify perfectly all that may ntH bo be gained be-gained gained in life if a man Wan will but bang to it That is it will exemplify r this to per pcr- sons ons of a a. p particular cast of t thought bought To others it may ina- as perfectly exemplify all that fails to tin tho mere hanger on Le Lo Pendu as ho be came carao to be called ilia hip real ical n name was Simeon and he ho was 35 born at Sullies Ville in Le II Le Le Pen Pendu u made his Jivin living by hanging hangin himself He Ho grow grew to bo be one ont of time the best known of music ha hall artists Unlike Pr goli who imitates various personages es by sudden changes of clothes clothe i Le Ic L Pondu could coul in a way transform his bo body y and possessed the tho most curious physical ever er known When a n. young oun man mau he surprised 1 and puzzled the army doctors As ho lie 10 presented pre seated himself f for r physical examination he appeared as a n thin spare ribbed fellow fel fl low 0 almost a skeleton and e i tho the examination was over he stood in to tho the presence sence of the army array doctor with an au enormously inflated abdomen as if ho Ito bad dropsy While the physician was examining this abnormal je a t development I tho the ab abdomen and a bi big bloated tumor suddenly grew on tho the young mans man's mans throat as if h he had an au immense goitre He tie had apparently in an au instant in instant in- in stant transferred tho the 5 swelling from the lower Jower part of his hod body to hi his bis throat When the limo cx examination was over o ho stood there thero a skeleton like liko young soon follow felIo a all as b before f ort His gifts in bodily transformation son soon became known own all over O his native o district and he hc was induced to show himself on OD the time music ic hall stage e. e For a aon long on time be he was known as a- atlIe the skeleton man though he also exhibited himself as the fat man nian His Ills physical transformations trans trans- formations did not stop hero her Ho lie was waR able to imitate the process of dying au and lentil death itself to perfection Scientists SCientist an and l the members member of various arious medical societies so 60 often wished to examine his bis ls strange Grange O faculties but hut ho he constantly refused refused re re- re- re fused to divulge tho the secret SIret of his trans frans formations When he be imitated tho the state of a dead per person on he be threw himself into a perfect coma Hi His heart apparently ceased casell to beat an and the most expert physicians phy phy- are nrc said to have been unable to detect life ife an and even cen through the scope not the slightest action of ot the time heart could be perceived The Tho most expert ex cs- sert s- s pert ert lectern doctors would have declared him dim dead sad and yet ret in is the next instant ho would ium up aud and crack jokes an and be beas e as much alive tJi as lS any cue oue His last hi trick k and ono one which kept audiences spellbound was os when h ho he used to bant himself by y the lime neck Heel with a 3 cord corll There wa was no mere make believe about it JIe He would hang himself or 01 allow himself to be he han hanged d from Jom a n nail in t the e e coiling in time the presence of a 1 largo audience Tho fie rope would could fasten aroun around his Throat his its muscles would stiffen and aud the till frightened pu public lic would see co him go through h ever every one of oC the tho phases of a man who was actually inured Tho The ghastly spert Hl was tir first t tc c exhibited in in a ca cabaret aret in in Montmartre and despite espite its horrors or rather on account of th them ir it hail had a great yuccas success A story Is 5 told that be lit once 0 played playe tho the trick in a hotel where he be was stopping I He lie hun hung himself from the ceiling after actor rin ringing the tho bell e and anal when the he waiter entered ho was horrified l b by the tho sil sight ht and rushed down own to inform the etor Before Defore they returned to the room the tho man who was supposed to hn have hanged himself had laid ta taken cn up h lint hrs valise null and mot met them quietly on ou th the stairs Al AI- though h it Jt might aught have been heen expected tl that some flay day ho would hang bang himself in real earnest such uch a calamity never Weyer be him fell feU him im He lie died dict of a most commonplace illness ill ness fees t too tho o grip rip at his homo near Toulon I I where he had retired after earning earning- a con considerably fort fortune uno on tho the stage starre He Ire never dl divulged e the secret of How now he ho produced produce the extraordinary inan ri rigidity of the muscles of his neck when n he us used tl to perform his feats of or hanging banging and carried car ur urrie reed ried rie the time m ter with him to his lus grave gravo Doctors proposed to l perform an autopsy r run un his Ilig body otly to discover isco his secret but blit buthis his bis family refused to allow it its Boston H.-Boston Boston Transcript |
