Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-03-19
Boy Win Bulletin Brain
Plays Baseball and appears
to Be Normal in E0ery Way
Medical Profession Is Amazed by Recovery of Wisconsin Young.
str Who Was Shot When Playing With Hi, Brother in Their
Home. . ,E "a - - u na p. -"

Kenosha, Wis.,, March 17.-aStephen
FStec of Kenosha, Wis, is going to be
the protege of medical science. That
he is alive is the remarkable part of
this story, and that the medical world
DIS baffled, and yet vitality interested
Ea purely predicated circumstance. The
Mayo brothers of Rochester and a doz.
ten other nationally famous doctors
have written to Kenosha for detailed
histories of the boys case, and tie
medical profession has express.
ed a deep interest.
For Steve" carries imbedded in the
very center of his brain tissuai a. lead
slug that nee was a pistol sballetd 1t
will stay there the rest of hisi3ifes 1t
doesn't affect him, and no. oneoW would
ever have known it If the boy himself
had had his way. It'd. 2 s III
The accident which made the phen.
lamenon possible occurred on Sunday
afternoon, February 2S. Steve, who
is 10, and his brother Albert, g., were
left alone in the Stec home.
The night before the boys had been
to the movies. They watched with
ecstatic awe as the cowboys killed the
bandits and the Indians.
When they found themselves alone
the next afternoon the big pistol that
Papa Siec kept in his bureau and
which they had been warned never to
touch, proved too great a temptation
for the boys.
Let's Brother. Shoot Him..
Steve pot the weanOn mt II was AL
who wanted to be the cowboy. Steve
let him have 1t and obediently went
to sleep" before an imaginary camp
fire in the CRATE, in the role of the
bandit" while the younger brother
crept upon him. ?
Albert put the muzzle Of the 'weap.
on against Steve's head and pulled
the trigger. BY all he laws of nature
Steve, writing on the floor with
blood spouting from the back of his
head, should have merely been anoth.
er paragraph in, thei century-old trag-
edy Of a child and unguarded fire.
arms.
But Steve, almost before the report
died away, was on his feet.
't,imme that gun" he g:'umbled at
the "kid brother"
Look at that carpet, you'll ketch
it." was his next observation.
Hurriedly he put the pistol back in
the bureau drawer, remembering to
put a fresh cartridge in the chamber
in place Of the exploded one.
Then he led a rummaging expedi-
ton on the family linen closet. Tow.
els were found to bind around his
head to stop the flow of blood, and a
wash basin and scrub rag soon clean.
ed up the tell-tale stains in the living
ROOM
When their father and mother came
home Steve and Al sat looking at the
pictures of a Sunday comic supple.
ment. Stoves head was washed clean
of blood and his thick black hair
"slicked" into place to V the
wound.
Monday morning Steve wouldn't get
up to go to school and in the after
noon DR.. John N. Palt was called. He
examined the boys tongue and his
pulse and took his temperature.
Everything appeared normal. The
doctor was puzzled. Casually he
placed his hand on the little fellows
forehead. Steve WINGED.
The doctor asked him what hurt
him, but the boy would not tell. DR..
Palt. however, was curious and made
a minute examination. The matted
blood on the back of his head showed.
The wound was cleaned up and the
bullet hole showed. Steve cried and
Al wept %copiously, but nothing could
be pried out of of either as to how the
wound was made.
DR.. Palt told the boy to get up.
Steve did and walked to the doctors