TWELVE-FINGERED PEOPLE.

Shannon News, 29 November 1921, Page 1

TWELVE-FINGERED PEOPLE.

■ —4 HILL DEWELLERS WHO BELIE THE NURSERY RHYME.

Wasnmgion, lNOvemcer z. New York boasts a policeman who has six fingers on each hand and six toes oh each foot., He is John Cope. Each of his children has seven fingers on each hand and seven toes on each fo«t. No one in the town of Bandera, Texas, would consider this anything unusual. Each member of more than a dozen iamilites of the hilly district round Bandera is equipped with six lingers on each iiand and six toes on each foot. This remarkable freak of nature he ban to be manifested in the Bandera section more th an 50 yearsago, and it seems to have spread, until it is no longer an uncommon thing with' dne people. The matter has been the subject ot much discussion and investigation on the part of anthropologists. The extra fingers and toes in every case are of normal size and development-. wrustrjaaßsaraxisiniaataß