Show Man Lives Though Shot in Heart Victim Saved by Heroic Operation Hilliard Billiard Ky ICy Jan 4 Daniel Daniel li H. f 1 Gibson of ot Cartersville who shot himself through the tho heart here herc October 10 10 is In a fair fall way r toward recovery Ills life liCe was saved b by an operation performed by a j surgeon wh says s he took hol hold I of or Gibsons Gibson's heart through which the bullet had passed and by twisting tho the I tissues of it with his thumb and forefinger lore fore fore forefinger finger plugged e the tho hole and stopped I the blood Tho The surgeon says the heart had hall ceased to beat anti and the man was apparently dea dead I Gibson shot himself In his room Ho He was carried shortly before 1 p p. p m m. m Into tho the operating room at 1 0 o clock Examination showed a bullet wound directly above the heart His Ills shirt and underwear were cut I away from his chest and antl his skin immediately im Im- mediately sterilized with pure puro car car- cal I j bolle acid and washed oC off with alto alco- hot hoi Tho The patient gasped a few fe limes times after aCtor being laid on tho the table but ap apparently apparently ap- ap was dead lead No Xo pulse could be I felt folt In the the wrist or in the neele I IThe The Instant I took hold of ot the thc heart i It began to beat j said ald Dr Monroe 1 I Benton Denton In des describing tho the heroic op op- oration With Ith m my Index finger Inger I I twisted the tho tissue of or the heart wallo wall i so o as to plug plug- the thc hole In the heart then removed the remaining clots clot In I the file sac or pericardium I He Ile did not regain res-aln consciousness until until un- un un-j un til some time tine after aCter he lO had hall been in bed bcd and It was two taro or three days das before boore he was totally ration rational L The pulse steadily improved after about three I 1 f 1 r I I I I days das tho they were cre normal Tie Tic ran a little lit lit- tle tIo fever during the first week but buthis buthis his temperature was practically normal normal nor nor- mal for the tho thos next two weeks and on October 29 9 ho ho was as released apparent apparently lt ly 13 all right t. t Tho The bullet which went through tho the heart and lodged lods-cd In tho the tissues of or the skin between the tenth and eleventh ribs when removed was found to be IH perfectly shaped the end of or it showing the Imprint of ot tho the mans man hart where it struck before entering the bod body No Xo motive has been disclosed by hr Gibson for his desire to die His fa father father fa fa- ther killed himself In November ember 1910 His grandfather also took his own life liCe |