SOMETHING REMARKABLE.
Just twelve months ago a young man named Saunders attempted to murdsv his sweetheart In the streets of Huntingdon by stabbing her with a sword cane. For that offenoe he was tentenoed to fifteen years' penal servitude. After a painful illness the girl gradually grew batter, bnt she always Instated that a pleoe of the eword blade had broken off m her body, and waa still there. Profesior Humphrey, of Addanbrooke'a Hospital, Cambridge, has fast sucoeeded m extracting from the girl's body a pieos of uteal blade more tha« six Inches In length. The most extra* ordinary fact connected with the operation Is that, although the wound was In tha girl's chest, the blade was extracted brokea end first, from her baok. It must haveturned completely round. Her reoovery la oqtt considered to be alr^oat certain. 4
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1655, 6 September 1887, Page 2
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139SOMETHING REMARKABLE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1655, 6 September 1887, Page 2
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