Show remarkable recovery of a new york detective new york sept 25 after the removal of five 38 calibre Trul lets rom his body joseph a railroad detective shot august 18 in a battle with a freight thief was pronounced yesterday to be on the road to recovery the detective according to the fordham hospital surgeons presents one of the moat remarkable cases of physical endurance that has ever come under their care after his battle with the thief was believed to he dead but he was driven three miles to fordham where it was found he bad been shot over the right eye while another bullet had entered the forehead near the left temple two lodged in the abdomen and a fifth struck the left thigh piercing the bone he revived and waa put on the operating table after three hours work two bullets were removed from his bead two weeks later an attempt was made to reach the bullets in his abdomen one had lodged in the wall of the stomach but the other was in the spleen this necessitated a long and extremely difficult operation two minor operations followed and the last piece of lead was removed yesterday |