Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-17


the policeman got inside the house to
break the door he found considerable
number of articles of wearing apparel
already packed in readiness for re-
moval.
This surely was one of the most COM
ical captures of a burglar ever known.
When upon trial, he appealed to be sent
to Armley jail instead of having to lie
upon the bare boards Of Keighley. po-
lice station. He told the magistrate,
amid a considerable amount of laugh
ter, that for long time he would not
like to have to sit and sleep on bare
planks.
Lance Sergeant Murphy of the Sing
apore water police has had a remark
able adventure. 1t was set him to ar
rest two notorious gamblers who had
taken refuge on barge moored off the
boat quay. Immediately the men sight
ed him they dived under water. Ser
geant Murphy, however, was not baf-
fed, for he dived in after them and
found the two criminals in the Shiny
mud at the bottom of the harbor.
brought them to the surface. He swan
straight away to the adjoining steps
with his captives and took them off to
the police station.
A blind boy who was left in charge
of a bakers horse and van near the
Clifton suspension bridge at Bristol
had a most marvellous escape from a
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over the cliffs and fell to the bottom,
distance of 200 feet. The boy himself
tumbled into a tree, whence he was
afterward extricated unhurt, while at
the foot Of the cliff the cart was found
smashed to atoms. The miraculous
escape does not end here, as it was
found that the pony was uninjured.
The stout old ship Fannie Kerr has
had a miraculous escape. She was
abandoned on fire in the Pacific ocean
in May Of last year while on voyage
from Newcastle, New South Wales, to
San Francisco A short time ago this
ship was drifted ashore at South cape,
Formosa. She must have been der
elicit vessel for over twelve months, and
during the time she was abandoned 1T
is calculated that she drifted nearly
1000 miles. This is not bad for a
ship that had been abandoned as unsea-
worthy.
A remarkable escape from death is
that of a girl who was admitted to the
st. Bartholomew hospital in Roches-
ter, England This female patient was
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and by some accident she had a needle
thrust right into her heart.
The remarkable operation was per-
formed at the hospital, as a result of
which, after a considerable amount of
suffering on the girls part, the needle
was successfully removed from the
heart.
At the thirty-frst congress of the
German Chirurgical association, held at
Berlin, a very remarkable patient was
introduced to the congress. This was
a young man who, attempting suicide,
shot himself with a small caliber gun.
The bullet had penetrated his heart, but
the wound had healed up very rapidly.
The ROntgen rays were turned upon
the mans heart, and the bullet was dis
covered in the right ventricle, bouncing
about with each beat The man was
for all the world as though his heart
were rattle. After some time the bull
let gradually became incased, and now
it moves rhythmically with the heart,
without causing the slightest incon-
venience to the patient
Equally remarkable was the tempo
rary escape from death of a domestic
servant named Ellen Kiesby. Some
years ago she was accidentally shot
near Northampton, and the bullet lodg-
ed in her head, but could not be locat-
ed. Afterward the girl said she thought
the bullet had moved it's position. Lat
er she died. An inquest was held, and
it was proved that death was caused