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Show Eyes of Dead Murderer May Restore Sight to Two LITTLE ROCK. Surgeons hoped the eyes of a dead murderer mur-derer might restore sight to two living men. Before 20-year-old Vollie Bill Bates was put to death in the Tucker prison farm electric chair for the robbery slaying of a taxicab driver, he willed his eyes to someone who "needed them badly." Surgeons removed corneas from Bates' eyes shortly after nis death and planned to transplant trans-plant them to the eyes of Mi-:hael Mi-:hael F. Boucher, 73-year-old retired re-tired bricklayer of Hot Springs, and Frank McCracken, a 49-year-old Fort Smith piano tuner, both blind. One of Bates' eyes suffered a superficial burn in the electrocution, electrocu-tion, but a surgeon said "we think it will be all right." |