Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-08-05 | Page 2 | Detective Shot in Eye may Yet Recover Vision

DETECTIVE SHOT 1 IN EYE MAY YET ! : : RECOVER VISION l San Francisco Surgeons Per- form Unusual Operation i Lifting Eyeball to Remore Bullet Lodged in Brain i BAN FRANCISCO. Auk. I (By A. P.) Krneet Gable, city detective, who wss' j hot In lb right eye by Walter Castor Thursday anil who at Tint was thoucht mnrtiilly wounded. proMbly will live and retain the sight of both ' This announcement was mad by surgeons ; who operated on htm. ' Ths bullet fired by Castor rut through the outer corner of the ay ball, passed through th orbit and Into frontal lobe of tha brain. Tha operation opera-tion consisted of llftlnaj tha eye from ! Ha socket, extracting the bullet from th brain and replaclnc tha eya. Through It. the surgeons said, Oabla will b able to sea. Tha aattlng In of cerebral meningitis la tha only eventuality which might ' fruatrat th effort of the surgeons to preaerv vision In tha Impaired ay. It waa aald. Tha ah outing occurred when the nolle no-lle went to a hme to arrest iorl for alleged complicity In the murder I of Mr. Henrv Wllkena, whose hue-J band U "held olfthe cam charg. un-( der th theory that he staged a fake holdup In which hie wife waa shot C'aator, beeldee wounding Oable, ahot and killed successively a detective sergeant ser-geant and Castor e alter-ln-law. Castor Cas-tor than took his own llfs.