A HUMAN WINDMILL.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3859, 29 November 1883, Page 4

A HUMAN WINDMILL.

_In a small one-storey frame dwelling situated opposite the freight-house of the Danbury and Norwalk Railway at Norwalk, the No (v York World correspondent recently discovered a curious cxamplo of human deformity, whoso existence has been preserved a secret for nearly seventeen years. At the house mentioned Thomas Ilardqn, a railway laborer, and his wife live with choir son Tom. This boy was born seventeen years ago, a misshapen mite of humanity. By the advice of their parish priest tho Borrowing parents have carefully concealed him from the public gaze. AVliilo tho correspondent called at the house (Sunnay) the unfortunate boy was found half sitting and lialf reclining in an invalid's easy chair. He is totally devoid of shoulders, and from tho centro of his back tivo arms witli wcllformed hands grew from a strange joint. The hands and arms aro devoid of feeling, ?vnd are also afflicted with a strange continual jnotion, sweeping around in a circle liko a Windmill, tho arms boing stretched out at full length and moving in opposite directions. The motion novcr ceases except when the arms are tied together, and are covered with scars from coming in contact with the wall, tables, chairs, etc. His body is further deformed by the joining of tho legs as far as tho knee. Here tho right leg" is turned hack and upwards until tho heel strikes tho centre of the back, where it is firmly imbedded in tho flesh. Ho is mentally bright, and conversed freely and intelligently with the reporter about the few books his parents had been ablo to provide for him, and about tho_ articles ho had read in the noivspapers, which aro occasionally supplied to him. Said tho mother: "He is a great care to us, being unable to help himself at all. But hois Justus dear to me as if ho ivas like other children. I suppose ho could bo exhibited, but as long as his father or myself have life in our bodies to work for him he shall never be."