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The Daily Dispatch: July 12, 1862., [Electronic resource], A Huge Humbug. (search)
A Huge Humbug. --The New York Express prints a column of the history of an attempt by a Dr. Perkins, of Oneida, Madison county, to gull the public in the city with an extraordinary lusus watura, in the shape of a "carbonized woman. " The subject is a Miss Perry of Oneida, a lady of thirty-seven years, who has been it seems foeen years past turning into charcoal so silently and unostentatiously that persons beyond her immediate neighborhood knew nothing of the strange occurrence till Dr. Perkins introduced her to the scientific world. During the fourteen years, it is said, whatever the maiden has eaten or drunk — and she not been stinted in food — has rest of womankind. The history concludes with this paragraph: There has never been so great an imposition attempted in this city; and the only mistake of Dr. Perkins was in calling in the New York faculty, and not applying directly to Barnum. Mrs. Cunningham's "bogus baby performance was thought to have immortalized New Yor