MURDERER S BEQUEST TO SCIENCE.
Scientists are immensely interested in an offer which has been made by a condemned murderer at Denver. Colorado.
ly. J. Weichter, a man who will shortly suffer the extreme penalty of the law, has “bequeathed” his eyes, immediately alter execution, to the doctors, in order that they may graft the corneas on a blind man named W. J. Abrams, in an effort to restore his sight. There is apparently no legal objection to such an experiment, but doctors are heatedly discussing the point as to whether such an operation would be possible, and whether the fact that the subject had been executed would militate against its success.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1016, 29 October 1912, Page 4
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112MURDERER S BEQUEST TO SCIENCE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1016, 29 October 1912, Page 4
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