Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1911 — Starves Self Fifty Years. [ARTICLE]

Starves Self Fifty Years.

A strange case of a brother’s fifty years’ voluntary starvation was brought to light lately by the death, near Lucerne, ot a Swiss shepherd, named Dangeli. Dangeli, who was seventy-seven years of age, was found lying on some straw in a barn. He was in the last stages of exhaustion, and was starving. “My papers are correct,” Dangeli told the farmer. “You will find that I am wearing three suits of clothes. In each of the suitsare pockets in which you will find altogether 86,400 in notes and shares. For fifty years I have worked in France as a shepherd, and I saved almost every penny of my earnings for my sister. I walked frond France to Lucerne so that she will benefit by every farthing of my savings." The money was found, on Dangeli, and given to his sister. She believed him to have died long ago.