The sun., 1890-01-21
noxRowED ANorHER,s BLOOD.
James +. o'NeIli Held the Candle while
They Opened His Veins and Lent some
Of HIS Lilo to Printer lnck1Ennh.

James r. O'SeIlI Held the Candle Will,
They Opened His veIns and Lent some
or His Lilo to PriRter Lockwood.
William Bradley and Isaac Lockwood
printers by trade, hired q furnished room nine
days ago on the top floor OF Mrs. Marion Dex
ters house. at IL First street. They had prett,
steady work, and used to come homo together
late at night under the influence OF liquor
They went to bed last Saturday night after an
unusually hard spree. At noon Sunday Brad.
ley came tottering down the stairs and went
back a few minutes later with pitcher OF beer
He said that Lockwood was sleeping of lis
drunk.
Eliza Gibbons, the chambermaid. tried the
door several times yesterday and found il
locked. About o'clock last night 1t was de-
cided to enter the room. A key was found and
the door was opened. The room was full oil
coal gas. Bradley lay Oh one side OF the bed
drawn up into bunch, He was Dead Lock:
mans legs and his ieet on the floor lie was
unco1scious. Every window in the room was
which was a coal fire, was Closed. N' 49,
,IaotEyI aotEwIoods i -, skin was eammy: and he
dermic injections OF ether and brandy. and
gave him digitalis and atropia.. He also
o'clock when Lockwood arrived at Bellevue In
t1s. the ambulance. % he was laid on a cot in the
and Fl, use surgeon Mccartney had u hurried
consultation. As they did 80. attendants put o
tube competing vii great jar OF oxygen into
breathed oxygen instead Of air. Lockwood
did not revive. and the, doctors pondered
whether 1t was worth while TO try the last
remedy-transiusion OF blood,
It's worth while trying" said DR.. Cummings
Then began a hunt for man who was will
ing to give several ounces of his blood to Lock-
wood. DR.. Cummings ran into Capt o'Rourke's
room down stairs and said:
is there any one here who wants too, give up
some OF his blood to save mans life p
to- Ge she one
Haint got any more blood than want my
SELL" The others looked at Dr.. Cummings va
else. DR.; Cummings walked out Of the room
and continued his search In few minutes
big, strong, .fine-looking man OF middle age,
stages Of phthisis. He didn't look sick at all,
sd Teht 0s Oh when The Doei0r
asked him 4 he would give some of his blood
Yes. will, and be glad to-"
o,Ihee, Inc preparations we're soon completed.
SO that It immedateiy Tia W adjoined % GS IocEWoods oo
Mccartney, Towleston. and "wers1cut ii
above tho waist Drs. Cummings and
Mccartney put on great, aprons OF oil cloth.
preparation, while the attendants. did tho
same to the right arm OF Lockwood and the
left arm OF O'Neil All the instruments used
We're washed In this way, too. Lockwood
breathed so hard that each time he
leaf. The sound of his breathing was
something awful. Quickly the doctors wound
two, mems bare arms Then Dr.. Cummings
through the skin, in Lockwood's right arm, on
the outer part OF the arm Just at the bevel In the
Chow; tie cut away until he freed the median
cephalic vein from the surrounding tissues.
ONeils 8 left arm was treated in the Same way,
after hypodermic injections OF cocaine to
deaden the pain had been made.
Then DR.. Cummings took up a long rubber
tube with a bulb in the cenGre. and with a
sharp pointed steel tube on each end. and con-
nected the life currents OF tho two men. Sue
cessiye compressions pumped O'Neills blood
In 20 Lockwood. O'Neil did not finch. Once
DR. Cummings said sharply to the nurse" Hold
that candle 20 that can see."
Let me hold the candle" said O'Neill. and
with his FREQ hand he took 1t and held it 80 that
the light shone on his bleeding arm.
The doctors tuok over fourteen ounces OF
blood from ONeill, and the effect was i'm
mediately perceptible. Lockwood's pulse grew
stronger, and he partly reRained conscious
ness. The doctors finally withdrew the tubes
tied the veins and sewed up the wounds In tho
arms. O'Neill did not seem any the worse for
his loss of blood. but the doctors said he would
Boon feel weaker They said they hoped for the
best for Lockwood but his was a forlorn hope