Vernal Express | 1919-04-25 | Page 7 | Man Who Cut off Hand Sentenced

MAN WHO CUT OFF HAND SENTENCED bips girardeau mo alo april 17 albert wheeling a farmer of hoi comb mo me who pleaded guilty in the united states district court to having chopped off his left hand with an ax on july 21 to evade selective service was as sentenced to six months in prison wheeling who la is 25 eats old after receiving orders to report for military service went into the woods near his home and chopped oft off his hand bound up the arm and walked to a farmhouse 4 ve miles away where he declared he had been run down by a train Accor according dlug to confession he be had been drinking at the time I 1