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Show AWL TPICK MAN DEAD. Hurry lleun Drinn xlinrp Instrument Into In-to Ilia Skull. Harry Heuo, the sideshow man known as "Heno, tho Wonder," died icrontiy at the City Hospital. Heuo had been a patient nt the hospjtnl for n...iiy three months. His denth was due to paralysis, which resulted from his dally performance of n feat known ns the nwl trick. This feat of Heno's consisted of drlv. lug nn nwl or other sharp Instrument Into bis skull. For jcars be performed per-formed this dally nnd npparently mf-fered mf-fered no serious results. While nt a small town In Southern Missouri last summer Heuo struck the nwl nn nn-vsital'v nn-vsital'v linrd b'ow. driving It sc far Into his head that It penetrated th" brain, in a few dajs his entire left shin became pnralvzed. He wns re-. re-. moved In the hospital here, and after ' n month's treatment 1t wns believed j he would rn"nver. lint another on" nl I Hern's r": was to t drug", nnd thl , sin,n..p,i uis constitution. Wb"n 1" was rt the bosnllnl tbr1 sui"."ins tt,n"o oTi'tted Hnun's skull and found that the feat nf diiIng the ns'i "'o bis ' "! -s cenulne. A do?. en bo'ns were fod !u . ie top of bl Imiid en l mt'iv others which had an-ti"rei'tv an-ti"rei'tv l'nnlrvl, J'nnn. the nrg"ons nv. ivim flltP.1 liy tiiitnr" for the feat. In that bo b-"' r-i i"uniilv hleli skull. It wns nearly three quarters of in '""It thick. Tl n1'1"! "inmnibment for which thni'ai'ds of nerons hav? paid to sec H"ttn w"s (bit of catlg strvchnlno H W"s coii' flint In nn dnr in cnuM eat a sufficient nmnunt to kill nine or ten m""!. 'I'l" bosnllnl surgeons nlsn made pn nyic'iv,oit pud fo'md that be wn nbl" to tn'; tin-en or 'our crates with nut ntiv evil results. T' n "onstnnt dmi P-iMnn- dlil much tn'vn-d nmslui; death. H""o vis a slt"lit icu mid rattier small. He was nlmnt fifty years old. W-'v tiT u-pntn Jlfn in been snent In the show business, nnd he bad traveled trav-eled over th" wori.1 with many oi the larse circuses. Of Into vcars lm had 'ien b's own ronnnTi nnd conducted b's own show In snfM towns and nt street fnlr.;. Knnsns City Star. |