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Show STOMACHS CHANGED; DRUNKARD REFORMS CLEVELAND, O.', March 2X Here is a man who has lost his stomach and will start a replenvin action, he says, to get his internal mechanism back from his brother. Peter Jordan, when about to be sentenced sen-tenced to thirty days and a $5 fine for intoxication, insisted that the court could not justly imprison a man because be-cause his brother's stomach led him astrav. Here is his remarkable story: ','My brother John was addicted to liquor and used cuss words. I was a church member and a teetotaler. While we were unconscious in the hospital and were being operated on, the boiler exploded ex-ploded and the doctors and nurse ran out and left us. Not much damage was done by the explosion, and they came back. , , , A I "We both got better, and later I found I had contracted the liquor habit, while my brother joined the church. I could not understand this change in me. Neither could my friends. I became be-came discouraged and went West. A week ago, while I was. in San Francisco, Francis-co, I got a letter from the doctor who performed the operation in the hospital. "Here it is. It says: 'In the panic during the explosion at the time of your operation, a nurse has confessed to me, she mixed your stomach with your brother's.' ' ! "I'm on my way back to Philadel- ?hia to replevin that stomach and make he doctors put it back where it belongs." be-longs." "Go," said the Judge. |