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Show PART OF HIS BRAIN GONE St. Louia Boy Rorrfpa and Playa and la Bright Oeaplt tha Loaa. ft 1 .0 1 1 1 A little German bny In Niirlh 81. I.oiila aeema likely In dla prove certain tbenrlea that medical el-porta el-porta have rhrrlvhed for many yeara by llvliic In health am happlneaa with a bullet In till brain. On the evening nf July 3. I90. little lit-tle Freddy 81 battering waa playing vilify Freddie Sahaafarlng. with hla chuma when one of them on dertixik to rlean a amnll revolver In preparation for the nnlae making, glnr-loua glnr-loua Imlependenie celebration. The weapin waa discharged and the bullet lmli' -d In FTeddy'a head. 1 be wounded boy waa taken to the himpttnl and lay unconarloua for three daya. More than a lableapnonful of bralna noted out, but the bulet re-fuaed re-fuaed to follow, and the doctora anld that with a hole eitendlng three Inrhea Into hla head Freddy nmat die. However, Freddy bad no notion of dying. Ilia parenta took him home aa aixin aa the doctora aald they could not aave him. Toay he la the live. Heat all-year-old In tha neighborhood of hla home at 4 1 S4 Mull place. He runa, Jumpa, and playa like any other yoongater, knowa everybody by name, and la apparently a haalthy boy of un-uaually un-uaually bright mind. The X-ray haa ahnwn the eiart location lo-cation of the leaden mlaalle that He la hla brain. Once an operation waa attempted, but aa aoon aa the akull had been cut through the doctora do-alated do-alated under the belief that an opera tlon would be fatal. |
