Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-08-21
HIS FRIENDS PUZZLED.
A New York Politicians Face 10 Completely
Altered.

Altered.
DR.. Kelly OF Bellevue Hospital. New York,
who gained wide renown by tho grating o. =
dogs bone upon the leg Of little Johnny Get
hans few months ago, has inst successfully
concluded another most remarkable surgical
feat. He has given prominent New York
politician q new face. Has SO changed him
facially, in fact, that every day his identity is
questioned by his nearest friends.
Martin Engol il ~ well known In the eighth
assembly district of New York as is Jay Gould
on Wall street. There il no local politician
more popular than he.
On June IS Engel, while bent upon polti-
cal mission, fierce local contest then being in
progress in the district, went into Mckeons
notorious saloon. at Christie and Hester streets.
This is what is known 'knocker-out' dive,
where, prosperous looking stranger inno-
Gently enters, whatever liquor he orders 10
ments he becomes heiplessly drunk. In that
condition he Is fit prey for tho thugs who infest
the neighborhood. This is a matter OF common
| repute and has frequently been exposed in the
public press Engel. who well knew the charac-
| ter OF the place, was leaning against the bar
when his attention was attracted by man at
his left elbow addressing an inquiry to him
concerning John Brodsky, woll-known repub-
lican district leader.
He turned and was making petulent reply
when man on his right struck him on the
side Of the head with an iron bar, and there
upon the bartender jumped over the DEATH
dealing mahogany and battered Engel IN the
face with bung driver. These two weapons
| we're so cruelty applied that in few minute
nearly every bone In Engers face was broken
and he fell to the floor unconscious, and for a
time was supposed to be dead. There is no
| doubt of the fact that his life would not have
| been saved had not an abandoned woman,
moved by pity, given the alarm to policeman.
who had the wounded man conveyed TO the
hospital. This officer had known Engel for
twenty years, and yet in making his report OF
| the case at the police station he described the
| victim of the assault an unknown man."
| An examination OF the unfortunate Engel
disclosed the fact that both his jaws, his cheek
bones and his nose were fractured. The fact
that he lived was almost miraculous DIR.
Kelly, who took the patient in charge, saw 4
fit subject for experiments with q number OF
new surgical appliances, and as n result Engel
now has not q scar upon his countenance. but
he has entirely new face. 1t has been
actually remodeed by the hand Of the surgeon
His nose. formerly aquilIne, now presents .
fiat, Monaghan aspect. In the main 1t II
artificial and yet its outer surface is Of human
skin and flesh. The interior alone il of oficia
composition. Yet this peculiar nasal organ
shows no sign Of scarifcation. His eyes are
more drawn down upon his cheeks than they
were formerly. His moustache has been made
to assume q different shape in order to concea
the Disagreement OF his upper lip.
In mending his broken jaw bones his fact
has been pushed into o rounder shape. Within
two months his health has been perfectly re
stored with the exception that he has not full,
regained his normal weight
| As he walks the streets Of the eighth assembl!
district, however, men who bowed down to hin
low as one of the political magnates of New
York pass him by without nod, utterly fail
ing to recognize him. He PUSHES up to old
time friends with the intention CT shakin,
them warmly by the hand, but they gaze upo!
him strangely and suggest that they read tn
newspapers and cannot be entrapped b,
bunco steerers. To prevent mistakes, whicl
are constantly happening, he has now provides
himself with o certificate from DIR. Kelly, stat
ing that he is Martin Engel. Physicians So
that the mending Of his countenance will eve
!, figure memorably in the annals Of surgery.