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Show RIP VAN WINKLE OF SOUTH DEAD Medical Experts Gather to Examine Body of Champion Cham-pion Sleeper POUT SMITH, Ark. April 13. Medical experts of the 'United stuo; and Europe who visited Jim EsllnBo:. the world's champion sleeper, before his death here Thursday, after a three years' nap announce the were completely com-pletely mystified by his malady and snii of refusing to tako nourishment. U Eslingei was in a comatose .stan- foi out- full week and resisted all efforts I to feed him. For eight years he w is .a county charge. For over three years , he remained in a stupor and for the I other five he slept possibly th.--'- y fans of this period. He lay for 36 months without ut-; ut-; tering a sound, his breathing denoting thai he was alive. He was brought to the hospital suffering from pellagra. PhysiciatlS and scientists assert that while there arc similar cases on record none of the victims ever lived more than two months They nvr his cnv.-was cnv.-was not "sleeping sickness." but that he was mentally paralyzed. A Frenc h scientist who visited the hospital about 18 months ago. aftei a length', : examination, said "this is a case for ! Conan Iole to solve" Xo phvslcljn ; or ( lentlst has ever offered i diagnosis diagno-sis of Eslinger s case. : Physicians were arriving here from surrounding cities and states to hold an autopsy, providing relatives will permit, oo |