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Show : ' 8L H GEK V S Til tOlPJ f. I' ... The Remarkable and Incredible Case of I Mrs, Lane of San Francisco. ! HE WAS THREE DAYS A HUSBAND. r , I Hew York's Blind Newsman-He Is Old, Poor and With No Certain Prospects. At San Francisco, on the !Mth of April, Michael Lane assaulted his wife with, a pistol and a hammer. One bullet entered her brain and another her jaw. The skoll was fractured by blow in four places, and the scalp on the back of the head was laid open for a distance of four inches. Having inflicted these injuries, Lane choked his wife until he thought the last breath had loft her body. Then he leveled the murderous mur-derous pistol at his own head and committed commit-ted suicide. The tragedy was the soqnel to ft bitter ouarrel between hnsband and i 1. Fracture of the skull due to blows of tho hammer. 2. Point of entrance of tbe ballot which penetrated the brain. The dotted line represents rep-resents its course, i. The point of exit. 4. The bullet that entered the left cheek and remains Imbedded in the opposite side of tbe face. 8. The scalp wound inflicted by a glancing blow of the hammer. wife. The latter, on discovering that tho former had drawn from the bank 13,000 the savings of a lifetime and lost the sum in speculation reproached him bitterly, and he replied in the cowardly manner above detailed. But the wonder of the affair is that the woman did not die. When the surgeons reached her she was exhausted from loss of blood, and the oxndation of brain matter amounted to nearly two ounces. Despite . the apparent hopelessness of the case the doctors went to work, removed splintered bits of skull, cleansed the bullet wounds, and used knife and needle with such skill that doubt gave place to hope and hope almost al-most to certainty. The great difficulty encountered en-countered that of draining and cleansing the track of the bullet through the brain-was brain-was overcome, and Mrs. Lane, instead of dying, showed promise of ultimate recovery. re-covery. After days of delirium she has become quiet and docile. There are indications in-dications that her mind will remain at least partially a blank, but her physical health may be fully regained. Mrs. Lane Is 62 years old and the mother of nine children. |
