The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-03


right side was paralyzed, and it was found
necessary to manacle ais left arm to pre-
vent him tearing the bandages from his
head, which he manifested disposition
to do.
A week after his admission to the hospi-
tai the wound in his head had sufficiently
healed to allow the removal of the stitches.
From that time On he grew better rapidly.
The paralysis of his right side gradually
disappeared until at present he can use his
arm and leg almost as freely as he can those
members on his left side. The hole in his
forehead healed up completely, but just
above the original wound DIR. Marks bored
enother hole, through which is still drained
OF the pus and matter which form in the
cavity The sight of the left eye is alto
gether destroyed and in this Witzle expert
ences the only defect likely to result from
this wound. In all other respects the
wounded man states that he feels as well as
ever he did, and in few days it is expected
he will be released from the hospital as
cured.
In its course the bullet must have plow-
I'd through at least three or four inches Of
gray brain matter before reaching its pres
ent location in the motor centers, some
where near the roof Of his head, on line
with his left temple DR.. Marks believes
that the bullet is firmly encysted in the
brain and will remain there.
Witzle speaks English very imperfcctly,
but when seen at the hospital his vocab-
ulary was large enough for him to express
his JOY at tbs fact that he was still living
Il don't want to die he said, land guess
! won't. My wife and nv mother-in-law
have been to see me- and everything is all
right. They are sorry, and so am II
He insists that he has no memory of the
events Immediately preceding his attempts
at self destruction. He denies that he was
drinking at the time, but claims that he
just cannot remember anything about it.
1t is possible that his wound may have pro-
iuced the lack of memory, or it may have
arisen from state of temporary insanity.
Asked to give his experiences after he be-
gan to recover, he said For long time I
lay in bed here and saw things around me
as though was in a dream. l do not know
how long | lay like that. People were NOV
ng around, and l saw them, but did not
seem TO be alive. l knew / was lying in a
bed, but to me it appeared that | was not
myself. l did not feel real; my mind and
ny body were as though two separate be
ngs At times | felt awful bad and had
considerable pain. | felt the pain, but it
mas as though it was not really myself who
Vas suffering, but rather some one else
whose pains felt through sympathy
How do You feel now?"
Il never felt better III my life, except that
should liketo be allowed to get up and go
home. | do not feel the slightest incon-
Fenience on account of the wound, nor does
IL pain me when it is dressed. la fact, I'M
less the doctor had told me the bullet was
there, should not know it,
Witzle's case is almost parallel with
that of Frank lesson, who was found
March %, 1892, at o'Neill's hotel, St Louis.
with a bullet hole in his brain He had
been drinking heavily. and in fit of de-
spondency he shot himself in the brain at
Forest park. After the shooting he boarded
an electric car and went down town. telling
those who saw him that he had fallen and
hurt his head At the hospital he became
delirious and remained so for between two
snd three weeks The physicians located
the bullet with probe, but failed to ex-
tract it. He died April 80. 1872, over a
month after shooting himself