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The Cheyenne Daily Leader
Cheyenne, Laramie County, Wyoming
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M. Stanislaus Martin describes an experiment on three death-row criminals nourished solely on tea, coffee, or chocolate instead of execution. The tea subject survived 3 years in skeletal condition; coffee 2 years with internal burning; chocolate 8 months in rotten state. Source: London Lancet.
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M. Stanislaus Martin states that, as the result of an experiment on three different criminals sentenced to death who accepted the scientific trial in preference to hanging. No. 1, nourished exclusively on tea, lived three years, and then died. He had become almost a skeleton and was in a transparent condition. No. 2, on coffee, died in two years, burned as if an interior fire had calcined him. No. 3 lived on chocolate for eight months and died in a very advanced state of rottenness, as it were, devoured by worms.—London Lancet.
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Experiment On Criminals Nourished Solely On Tea, Coffee, Or Chocolate
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Three criminals sentenced to death participated in a scientific experiment, choosing it over hanging. One nourished exclusively on tea lived three years, becoming almost a skeleton in a transparent condition before dying. The second, on coffee, died in two years, burned as if by an interior fire. The third, on chocolate, lived eight months and died in a state of advanced rottenness, as if devoured by worms.