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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 421, 12 May 1904, Page 7

.""...■ _: A ; «TiT^H^D^ttE:iß% : ."/. The wonders of the East, in the shape of • the Mahatmai now'at'Oxford/who. is able 1 to'stop the beating .of his heart, are -'■ rivalled by a wonder of the East End, who , had been shot through the neck and stabbed in the, heart, ana-/ yejb to ; mystify "the medical profession.'.,'-rJpbii - these, 'two', vital accidents; livesfin Hackney;. r arid_ was mentioned in the papers when it was announced that through She marvellous surgery at the hospital he survived the operation of .'having his heart etitched. A•- = representative "6l the •Daily Mail? wHb ! ■ saw'him on the 29.h told that at preßentfhe'^feel^atf'weli-aHe'fetih" : « • his life. \ln Long's -owns words the'-story *3* lOßea none of its astonishing-features. . -aß.AA?drunken foreignerpicked* a quarrel with me QU»3JW;Ii Ma-y^astfe- flburißhed - a penknife,-whioh I tried to h* Itabbejf, ine in the region' of -the heart'.- _\ #lelt no inore gain, than M 3m kiiife W&> I'• -passed between -t#o'; 'fingers without - #ng~ ijshemf • bpt fearful: %hj% to ■-»• drawbreSth'i wad Bbto;lostcb!a!s6ioußneßlß.Aftejr my eatee*ad?been "•.. , less % an fidur telisej.l wassjfcaken • Hospital, where Mr. Farnival,. a viMtfeiC:/ iurgebn,i.perfowned--an^imm«diate i <?opora-" ■< and 1 part of."t£e breastbone).,bad tp,be'; removed/ I 'The' gall bladder "was placed'on '. one side, and the lungs disturbed in order. fogetatthe-wound."?Fhreestitches were put in the; heart, and the mricatdiuuai emptied 6fsthed)lood4hafc;had r g6t inSo:iti ■■&££ -Thea I was told I made;a?rapid recovery,. :,:. and after two months was discharged from the hospital* Doctors «Bed|to-crpwdT ■;.,•- round me while there in order to seamf ,»,„ heart, which could be bbßezved beaßng -''', , v at the bottom of a Jwound ifloneu ■ ;'; across. ■: • " : •'"■' , .' '. ■*' :""'"■ •This is where I waa atabbedj* anff I : ' Long showed the" 1 outward and: visibteTl**signs of his marTolloua Acroaa the chest was a red-Bear between six-ami «seven inches long, with maiks where stitches had been put in, but in the centse c. ,-." was a depression whioh throbbed with a ; ;.? sort of Monble knock,' the actual beating ; s of the.heart only a short dfetenee from the,.... sorface of the wound, I-', ..,'.'- ; ..'.:*'.'---, ,:'• C^y&.t Long weals a shield of block leather,'. f and aluminum with Btrapa over his chest " * to prevent any injury to the wound. The ehobting aocident aoourred fon»-' 2 - iigßftrß ago,/ ; when•'■•he' ; -and,-ftsfcri«Mi;wfai!i f :: \ examining a revolver. .' : \; -

I"Tis a mieehlevoos lad, an?how, and what ha sowb he mrat reap.* • Marry, bat he *