A MARVEL OF SURGERY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 13 August 1907, Page 4

A MARVEL OF SURGERY.

ARTIFICIAL FEET FOR A MUSIC- | HALL ARTIST. By a marvellous piece of surgery, Mi»B Dot Stephens, the well-known musichall artist, was enabled to appear early in July at Her Majesty's Theatre, Walsall—the town she left one day last October to meet with a terrible accident on the railway.

Miss Stephens, who was under a long engagement in the Moss-Stoll tours, was travelling in a corridor coach en route to Glasgow, when she fall through one of the doors, and was hurled on the track. A passing train crushed both her feet, leaving only the heel of the left foot, and the large toe of the right intact.

She was taken to the General Hospital at Wolverhampton, where Dr Dent amputated the crushed portions of the feet. Miss Stephen's face and bead were also very much injured, and her left arm waß badly cut. Mr Stoll, Mr Bannister Howard, and Mr Lennon gave benefit matinees and arranged cricket matches for her, and certainly not one of her friends imagined that she would ever be able to

"work" again; but the Wolverhampton hospital staff were not to Be beaten, and the was fitted with artificial feet (at a cost of £200), so wonderfully made as entirely to escape detection. An Express representative found Miss Stephens, who bears a striking resemlance to Miss Edna May, at her home. There is not the trace of a scar on her

face, and the feet which peeped from under the long skirt were as dainty and "real" «« possible. "I can walk a couple of miles without any fatigue and without the aid of a stick," she said laughingly. "In fact, I walked all over the Earl's Court Exhibiton the other night. "I hope to do sketches at the piano during my tour, as well as some new songs, and I am looking forward keenly to getting back to work."