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Show SPIKES HIS FEET TO THE FLOOR Fanatic Creates Sensation in San Francisco Church. San Francisco. Attempting self-crucifixion while suffering from religious mania, a stranger who gave his name later as Thomas D. Thornton, of "everywhere," "ev-erywhere," created a sensation among the worshippers at St. Mary's cathedral cathed-ral here Sunday, when, with a length of gas pipe, he drove a four-inch spike through each instep and nailed one of his feet to the floor. He uttered no cry and had one spike driven home and the other through his foot when restrained by ushers who answered the horrified cries of the congregation. |