The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-04-06
DEAD Man REVIVES
WHEN HEART MAS MASSAGED
Pittsburg Clerk, Apparently Dead Nine
Minutes, Talks to Doctors and
Lived Three Hours Longer.

As minutes and on noticeable beating
of the heart, FOR eigi minutes, Viii
lard Wallace, Pittsburg clerk, who,
it is charged went from city to city
realizing large sums on worthless
drafts, was revived for three hours
and twenty minutes today at TIE Bos-
ton Relief ospital.
This was a.ter he had been sub
jacted by d.. William ]. Brinkley TO
t. heroic operation OF massaging tAe
heart, Several hours previous lie al
swallowed cyanide of potassium III
Che city prison.
Wallace died at 2::10 this afternoon,
and Dr. Brink e. said that had ne
taken any poison but cyanide his lie
would { ave been saved lie CLERK
was to have been arraigned in coarl
this morning IS a fugiti,c from JUS
tice.
tDr. Brinkley said Upon his admit
tance to the hospital, Wallaces con-
dition was growing worse, At 10 We
began artificial respiration; at 10 ID
the patient ceased apparently to
breathe. His heart was running fairly
strong and We proceeded TO give man
ual artificial respiration. AT 10:30 GO
pulse could be fe,t at tie wrist and
only an occasional faint I-eart bna;
could be heard.
"I made two incisions three inches
long, just beneath the breast bone,
sufficient to admit my hand.
q put one OF my fingers against
the diaphragm and could feel no !leact
beat. All of t time the respiration
w&s being continued by my assistants
I then placed my right hand under
the heart and my ot3er hand against
the outside wall CT the c est and begin
to massage rhythmicaliy, very gently
Inside of two minutes the heart
began to beat, slowly and Irregular"
It first, but in ten minutes it was beat
irg strong. T2e color in the face
whio. had been Of deadly pallor, SLOW
Iy changed to red, and the change was
noticeable in other parts of the body.
even to the finger tips.
"Ti e pulse appeared at the wrist
Is minutes later, and continued. AT
11:30 t pumotor was put into ser
vice again, but Il e manual massag-
ing of the hecrt continued at inter
e ais of fifteen minutes.
81 felt that We were really going 20
save him. At 1870 the heart began
TO .ail. Shortly after>2 it would not
respond to vigorous massage. At 2:19
il ceased altogether.
My wisl was to proloag life unti'
he had recovered from the first ef-
fects of the cyanide; after that felt
that I cou,d combat with any other
sitlation that might arise. This man
did not die from paralysis of the 7as-
piration and exhaustion of the heart
Wallace was unconscious through
it all.
DR.. Rrinkley said that he Tad loHs
rad such an operation in mind, apd
il it could be done for persons who
had collapsed on the operating table
he saw no reason why it s-ould not
be attempted in poison case, par
ticularly where cyanide is used. Tie
opinion expressed by other surgeons
to ay is tat the operation will here
after be attempted frequently in poi
son cases where tt e life Of the victim
is simply hanging by a thread.
When arrested Wallace had a stack
of new bills issued by Portland, Ore,
bank. At first he denied his identity
and threatened his captors with civil
suits. This morning as he was abou:
to be brought out for detectives to
look him over, Wallace stopped for a
drink of water and then sal to IN
inspector:
"I have taken some of the strongest
kind of poison"
iWi.at is that?'
Cyanide of potassium.
Where did you get it?"
''I had it concealed. They didn't
find it when they frisked me-"
Then he collapsed.
The Remedy For It.