| Show WAS SAVED BY THE DOCTORS victim of rob robbers bers recovered because the physicians probe for the bullets the expert medical witness had just descended from the stand when a recess was announced in the criminal court and so he paused for a few moments to chat with judge ralph S latshaw who dearly delights in twitting the medicos whenever I 1 see a doctor on the stand related the judge 1 I am forcibly reminded of an experience when I 1 was an assistant prosecuting attorney memy many years ago A storekeeper on east ninth street was shot by robbers when he refused to open hla his cash drawer pour four bullets found him altheir as their mark and when of bleers ilc rs arrived on the scene he was lying on the floor dead to all outward appearances doctors who had hurried to the store took a look at him shook their heads and went away not one ona of them offered to probe for the bullets and do you know smiled tho the judge to the doctor that was what saved aved 8 him the storekeeper recovered and is i in business to this very day ho he still carries the bullets one of them in his head bead now what would have happened to him doctor it if they had probed for the bullets but by this time the expert was gone kansas city journal |
