The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-25
REMARKABLE WOUNDS.
Curious Cases OF Recovery.

A correspondent of the Milwaukee Sentinel
gives an account of remarkable cases OF recovery
from gunshot and other Wounds:
Several years ago, In Milwaukee, drunken
man disturbed German military funeral pro-
cession one Sunday afternoon. A policeman
who was In the procession handed his rifle to
comrade, and stepped up the man and sought to
paciiy him. The policeman had hardly resumed
his place in the ranks when the rut1an again
became violent: further remonstrance availed
nothing, and the man was arrested and placed
in the custody OF a constable, to be taken to the
station house in hack. After crossing Spring
street bridge the prisoner broke away from the
constable, knocking the latter down, and was
escaping, when the news was taken to the sta
tion that a man had killed policeman and was
flying
man had seized an axe, and, brandishtng 1t,
threatened death to any one that attempted to
take him. After one or two attempts to effect
his capture he got away and was running when
he was shot. 1t was found the bullet had struck
low down the back, and had passed through the
man, and on further examination, 1t was found
just imbedded under the skin, almost directly
opposite the point of entrance; the bullet was
so near the surface that slight incision with
lancet was made and the ball fell on the floor.
A few days afterwards the man was discharged
from the Hospital as well apparently as ever.
Several years afterwards the man stated to the
writer that he felt no Inconvenience from the
wound.
n "a very few days after the occurrence Ger.
man attempted suicide by shooting himself in
the forehead, just above the nose, with horse
pistol. The ball appeared to have glanced and
passed completely round the skull, as was seen
by the mark under the skin, and came out within
one and three.quarters of an inch OF the hole
where it went in. The German, though badly
disfgured by the two wounds made by the
bullet, and the marks of powder on his face,
completely recovered, and was living ten years
alter the occurrence.
''Still another remarkable recovery from a
wound is worthy OF note. A German laborer
was waylaid on the track of the Mississippi Rail-
road, and most brutally beaten. Besides other
severe injuries, the mans skull was crushed in
on the top OF his head. so badly was the skull
broken that several pieces were taken out by
the physician that attended him. The persons
who committed the deed were arrested on a
charge of assault with intent to kill, and held to
await the recovery, or, what was considered by
far the most probable the death of the assaulted
man. Within month after the occurrence the
complainant came into the Police Court aud
gave his evidence, evidently retaining all his
senses, and with all his faculties about him.
But what was the most singular was the fact
that the large hole in the mans head permitted
the action of the brain to be clearly seen as il
rose and fell with the pulsations, and by the
applying of the ear to the hole sound was
distinctly heard like the putting of steam
engine. The man got well, and he too was alivt
for years afterwards"