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Show SEErilNGLY HOPELESS, BADLY BATTERED MAN IS SAVED BY SURGERY and simply removed and doctors were still at work when Koch opened bis ejvtt, drew In a deep breath and sat bolt upright upon the table. Quickly but feebly he told of receiving a blow on the head. Restoratives were administered, and as his faculties cleared rapidly he said he was struck down at Amsterdam avenue and. One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Fifty-seventh street. Two hours after Koch had corn to life on the operating table detectives brought, to the station two men who admitted being with Koch. They had been arrested on his description. Koch is in a fair way of recovering. NEW YORK. June 80. Applying to surgery the axiom that "while there is life, there is hope," surgeons In , Washington Heights hospital jplaeed Weener Koch, aged .2 2, on the operating operat-ing table yesterday. . But there was so little left la Koch that the surgeons felt that work was well nigh futile. - Koch entered his home a. week ago, sought his bed without arousing any of the family and was found unconscious uncon-scious by his mother on the morning of June 20. Efforts to arouse him were unsuccessful.- Examination disclosed dis-closed no wounds on Koch's body, and there were, no symptoms of drug or alcoholio poisoning. Day by day he grew weaker. He was taken to a - hospital, where a slight depression in the skull was discovered dis-covered and an operation performed.' Removing a small area of the skull, a blood clot was found. As more of the skull was cut away the clot was seen to be extended, and it was soon found to cover a six-inch surface of the brain. It was speedily |