THE EDITOR WITH A BULLET IN HIS BRAIN.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 362, 11 February 1876, Page 3

THE EDITOR WITH A BULLET IN HIS BRAIN.

The ' Times ' correspondent writes from Philadelphia:—" The editor with a bullet in his brain, to whom reference has so often been made recently in the news from America, is dead. His case was an extraordinary one, for he carried a bullet in his brain for over Beven months. At Yineland, New Jersey, this editor, Mr. Uri Canuth, who was a man of about forty-five years of age, published a newspaper which achieved notoriety on account of the severity of the strictures. Among others whom the editor criticised was Mr. Charles K. Landis, a leading man at Vinelaad, and the founder of the town, and in March last, after the appearance of a very severe article reflecting upon the family affairs of Landis, that person went to his office and shot him. For weeks Canuth lingered between life and death, but finally he got so much better that he was able to be about, and was thought out of danger. His assailant was released on bail, and friends arranged a compromise, by which Canuth, for $12,500, was to withdraw any prosecution. The papers, however, were never signed, minor details not being arranged, and this delay seems to have preyed upon Canuth's mind, so that this autumn his condition became worse, and he waß ultimately confined to his bed, and finally died. Xet, he had lived from the 19th of March to the 24th of October with the bullet in his brain, and during most of the time he was in apparently fair health. His case was regarded by the medical fraternity as: an extraordinary one, and yesterday a number of prominent physicians visited Vineland and made a post mortem examination. The bullet was found about one inch from the point of entry, and a little below the tentorium. There was marked congestion of the pia. mater in the floor of the right ventricle, especially on the right side ; the cerebellum was wholly uninjured by the ball; there was a moderate degree of softening of the pleura of the brain and large ganglia ; the organs of the body were found to be in a normal condition. The result of the examination of the body revealed the fact that, with the exception of a slightly congested kidney, the body was in a healthy condition." Immediately upon Canuth's death, the bail surrendered Landis, and he is now confined in gaol. The great question is now being discussed whether, considering all the circumstances and the great lapse of time, the shot was the actual cause of death, and so indubitably the cause as to convict the man who fired it of murder. The coroner's jury at their inquest yesterday, after hearing the testimony describing the post mortem examination, asked the leading physician his opinion. He said, " Death was evidently, in my judgment, the result of a j.umbot wound, the bullet passing through the brain; the more immediate cause, however, was the abscesses following the passage of the bullet into the brain." The jury found a verdict declaring that the death was caused by Bhooting at the hands of Landis.