LIVED WITH FOUR BULLETS IN HIS BODY
Rereived Slnniav, S.50 p.m. * NEW YORK, Dec. 27. Lutlu-r Moultry, aged (ti, of Wichlta iKiinsas), woko from a troubled sleej) early today. DeeiHiiig that lie could nol stand tlie coustant paiu of inteustinal cancer anv Jouger he wroto a farewell note to his wife and three children and then lired three hullet.s from a .,'52 calil>re jtistol into the right side of his liend. Before the memhers of his family could stop him he lired another 'uiiiet iiflo his Imdy. He was taken to !ios]>it jil but smiled, talked and neve.r lost conseiousness. This aftcrnoon oue bullet dropped from his sealp. X-rays revealed that the other two Imllets lired into the.liead liad iodged where aecording to phvsiciaus there was lilt'le ehanee of causing death, while tlie bullet lired into his liodv missed vital organs. The doctors iist liis ehanee of reeovery as good.
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Chronicle (Levin), 29 December 1947, Page 4
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