A Big Story for a Little Man -
You gotta hand to Frank Blitz, manager of the Little Prince. The truth is the little man was born in the USA and began exhibiting around 1907. It strongly appears he suffered from Hutchinson-Gilford disease in which case he would have been only the second person in the history of the show business to be exhibited with that syndrome, the first being an Englishman known as Hopkin Hopkins.
Three years into his brief career he began suffering from heart trouble.
A year later, in 1911, he dropped dead in an Ontario, Canada train depot where he was waiting for the next car to Detroit.
He was said to be 36 years old, 27 inches high and 16 1/2 lbs at the time of his sudden passing.
Hid body was reportedly sent to New Orleans for interment - a long way from the mines of Siberia. |
