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Show MOVED BROKEN NECK AND DIED AT ONCE - NEW YORK. Feb. 17.-Frederi(k Wolfrost. a farmer who lived in Ja- G matca. L. I., is dead in a hospital there, having moved his head after g S being operated on for a fractured vetebrae, caused by a fall on the W Ice The surgeons were absent and Wolfrost was under the care of his brother, to whom he complained of feeling uncomfortable, and ex- W pressed a desire to move his head. ( The doctors had -placed it in a sup- porting apparatus after having re- moved the broken bone and rellev- ing pressure on the spinal cord. The farmer's brother helped him move slightly, and the patient col- lapsed. Stimulants failed to restore him. and In a yw minutes he was ef |