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A Man Lives Thirty Hours With A Knife-blade In His Heart

A Man Lives Thirty Hours With A Knife-blade In His Heart image
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Day
16
Month
November
Year
1877
Copyright
Public Domain
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About midnight on Monday a man was diecovered in the vicinity of the Tliird District Pólice Station, stiiKp-ering along the street, and acthig in a boisterous inimner. He was taken iuto the station on the charge of disordeily conduct and placed in a cel), where he remaiDcd until the following morning, when he was relcfised. Tlie man, whose mime could not then be ascertained, went to the house of a friend nanied Quigley, on Seventh street, and toid Quigley he was very ill with a pain in his brenst. Quigley took him to the City Pispensary, where an oxamination was liad aud tho diseovery made that the man had been stabbed in or through the breast bone, thoiigli the wound was considered light. He continued to grow weaker and more stupid, and this morning he died. The ense was so curious that a postmortem investigation was held by the Coronel-, and it was found that the man hal been stabbed with a long-bliuid jack-kuife, the blade of it uot only goiog through the ontward wall of the body, but through the pericardium of the hoart and slightly penetrating that organ, dentli being produced by hemorrJiago of the heart, though the bkeding was so slow and tho vic.tim so strong a man thnt it took thirty hours for liim to bleed to death. The point of the broken knife blade, an inch long, tras found insidé of the body, held flrmly by the bone tlirough whieh it was driven, and still penetrating the ontward covering of the heart. - St, Louis Repubnéaiï. The Blue mountain range running thvough Peunsylvania is said to t o di-. viileu &t regular intervals of twenty-, 8ven mi'es by rjyetR or water oourses,

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Old News
Michigan Argus