Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1889 — A DOUBLE-BEAMED NEGRO. [ARTICLE]

A DOUBLE-BEAMED NEGRO.

Medicos Surprised by an Examination of A New Jersey Colored Man. [Trenton (N. J.) dispatch.] The Mercer County Medical Society has devoted much time to the examination of William King, a colored man who is said to have two hearts. He is about 46 years of age. The examination proved that he has a divided heart, such as is found in the lower animal kingdom. The heart beats perceptibly on both sides. King claims to be able to drop his ribs like a set of double-action window blinds, but this was done, it was detected, by his control of certain muscles. He claimed that he could change the locality of his double heart, but this was pronounced a piece of jugglery, the result of long practice. He caused his hearts, pulse, and temples to cease beating for a period of sixty seconds, and the physicians pronounced it a successful effort.