The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-11-04
mo PAIN FELT
| BY CANDIDATE
FOR PRESIDENT
Wears Three Inch Strip Of
Cause Across Top Of
Head. i
|ONLY A SCALP WOUND
Democratic Nominee to End
to End Campaign With
| Two Speeches Today.
ONLY A SCALP WOUND
Associate Press Dispatch.

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Princeton, N. j.. Nov. 3s--Eov.
Wilson tonight wears q narrow strip
|of cause and col.odioa across the top
|of his mead, covering scalp wound
three inches long, which he received
early today in motor car mishap on
the way home from Red Bank, NJ. j.
His automobile struck mound In the
|road and ioltai him UP against a
steel RIB Of the roof Of the machine.
The wound is not serious and the
Democratic presidential nominee will
|fultilI hts speaking engagements III
Patterson and passiac, New Jersey.
tomorrow night. and attend To his
correspondence ~ usual early tomor-
row.
Tonight the Governor was In the
narlor Of his home in the center OF
a group Of friends. There was moth
ing in his manner to indicate that he
had met with any mishap He said
he did not feel the wound In the
slightest degree and had not even
developed headache from It.
y guess I'm too hard headed to
be hurt" he said smilingly, as he
received the correspondents. Ds. J.
NJ Carnochan, the Governors fam
iy physician, who dressed the wound,
issued The following statement about
it, tonight:
Scalp Laceration.
when I saw Gov. Wilson this af+
ternooa found he had received
iaceration of .he scalp about three
inches IN length. Otherwist he was
in gond condition and seemed to be
suffering no i'll effects"
The mshap occurred early this
morning The Governor had spoken
last night 1T Red Bank and left for
Princeton, a distance Of forty-five
miles. shortly before IL o'clock He
tbae III @Ht llHlVuNGiit Idi vi ADIdHHM
L. Elkys, a New York lawyer, who
lives at Red Beech, accompanied by
Capt w. J. Mcdonald, his personal
body guard, who was shaken up and
bruised,
The mishap occurred early this
fifteen miles an hour" the Governor
said, tonight, "and we were going
very smoothly near Highstown when
the Jar came. The chauffeur did not
see the mound of earth, being de-
ceived by SHADOW thrown across
the road by a post. Evidently the
road had been dug up and the mound
of earth presented a hard ridge.
As we struck Capt, Mcdonald was
thrown against the roof of the car.
II felt Of my head and felt 1t bleed
ing. | knew | was not seriously
hurt, but knew II was imprudent to
continue the journey in the cold. So
we stopped some passers-by and
within few minutes found the home
OF Dr. Titus at Highston. He
dressed the wound carefully and
cleansel 1t and we went on to
Princeton"
Shaves Nominees Hair.
The physician shaved the Cover
nos's hair Immediately surrounding
the injury and put strip of antisep-
tic plaster over the wounded spot.
''The worst thing about It," said
the Governor. lis that 1t made me
prematurely bald"
His coat was stained with blood
as the wound bied freely at first.
He said he had not been disturbed in
the least by the accident. but by the
fact that Mrs. Wilson probably was
worried by his delay In getting home.
He did not telephone anybody when
the accident occurred. In fact he
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