RESOLUTE YOUTH
BLOWS HIS OWN HAND OFF. WHEN BITTEN BY DEATH ADDER. By Telegraph—Press. Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Bitten on two'fingers by a death .adder as Gosford, Charles Louss, aged. 19, calmly blew off his hand with a shotgun, wrapped his shattered wrist in a handkerchief, and -walked a mile to his home and then drove fourteen miles by car to a doctor. The doctor said that but for Louss’s desperate act the bites would have killed him.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 May 1939, Page 5
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83RESOLUTE YOUTH Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 May 1939, Page 5
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