Show TERRIBLE LE EXPERIENCED EXPERIENCE E r Living Man Who Was Used as a aShield aShield Shield During Boer Bo r War London I EJ rel Probably Props not another man alive tUv lips leas had tins the ter terrible bI experience of Private l Dun Dunning nine ning nl g f rm of or the Northumberland whose body was us used a as a firing shield hl by his comrades c duri g an un affair of outposts in the South African African i war warThe warThe The Soldiers and aud Sellers Sailors Help society which ha haut has dune done so 80 lunch good among disabled soldiers has lias h been I employ empIO tag lag Dunning at light carpentry work but buthe lt t I he be has hu now pow become so 80 weak that it has liaa been boen necessary to transfer him to the th lighter task task of or basket making The e story of his experiences experiences was oay estly told by b Dunning to an n Express rep representative rosf Be He was Wd one of a detachment of MO j jJ guarding a convoy como from to o J which was attacked by J Boers opt near the latter place 1 I could see nothing but one big man mati minion on onn n a 1 big bl gray horse borEe moving about among the trees tr eB fifty yards away he said 1 thought ur nothing but him and tuut kept saying aying to myself I 1 must bring him down hI I knelt down and aud fired carefully art The I big man came ame down like a shut shot and the lh 1 gray horse bolted belted bolt At the same Kame instant In Uin about a 8 dozen n men broke cover conr twenty I yards away and fired tired at me mu m I 1 was n several places and went down I 1 was still conscious s but Soar our men thought 1 and used me and the bodies of Other r men as a rampart to fire over until one by hr one they were all silenced I remember somo some men dragging my mt I clothes off me rae later tater They left me stark I but one otie of them them put my m water I to tom my and said Goodbye chap cap youre your going Dunning had ti d eight bullets in his hia bJ hotly body anda 8 broken Some of ot Wio rho o bullets were wOr j not 1101 retracted extracted c until he reached KlUS Kru ers rs I dorp eight days lAYs later Practically all all the Ule 1 ribs on the right side have been bt en shot away a d he Ile now nears wi ars a i thick felt jacket with steel supports to keep him from i collapsing I He lIt has lias u Jl pension of Is Cd Gd a it da day which he lie b supplements Sll a it little by Even this light light work however is obviously a severe tax tar ta upon uI On 1 JIm him hn end and he be te JB frequently unable to ro currY carry H Jt on Oft He lie Il Is 3 31 years old and has one child and a 8 Soong Qung a pretty Y wife wl It Is so plain idolizes he U soldier fc Dunning ateo foUght at O urman and was shot through h the liSp hip bt at ut Madder Modder river I |