Show bredemeyer growing weaker the case of dr bredemeyer is getting interesting at least lease to him today is the seventeenth of his fast since his arrest tor for the assault made on his wife and aad his bis to take food has been persisted in throughout the whole period physicians have visited him from time to time some believing that he was actually starving himself while whale others declare that he has bas not gone without some nourishment the latter however must concede that the odds are against them when it Is ia stated that the starving doctor has lost about 85 pounds ia weight since his bis fast began and that his hia clothing clot blag which once fitted mrs him fairly now bas bags about his bis shrinking form last night bight and this morning moraine he was quite jjck and is very weak the prison n officials looked upon him as liable to ao falter at any time his almost incessant smoking liag has probably done considerable 4 e ble to nerve him up but will no doubt render his collapse more complete when it comes as it soon will at the present rate today ane doctor requested sheriff bart to call on mrs bredemeyer and ana request tier ner to visit him with a vi view ew to reconciliation this site she ref refused used to do the sheriff called on om judge zane this afternoon and asked for advice to in the matter the chief justice bustle replied that the officer could do nath nothing ing out provide tue the best room in the jail plenty ot of exercise and aad well prepared tood food all of this has been carefully attended to and t the he county court has been inquired of regarding the ahe necessity of t the h e prisoner to ascertain whether or no not t he Is in sane anne it it should be decided that he is he be will at once be removed to the asylum at present his bis last fast seems to be simply a desperate effort to coerce his bid wife into a withdrawal of the divorce suit salt which she has instituted |