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Show Chicago Vet Victim of Gland Bandits Kidnaped, Lulled Into UnconscVtcaess With Anesthetic, Victim Awakes With Pari f Body Missing; Operation Done With Skilled Hand lly J MF.S I. KILt.AI.DI A I nlcnui clonal News Service CHICAGO, Oct. 14. Joseph WOS-nlak WOS-nlak the first victim of gland bxin-!dits bxin-!dits in the world, was resting easily at a local hospital tonight, and It was stated It will be only a short time until he is up and around. ' Although one of his glands is mlss-' mlss-' ing. his v irility Is not affected. The other gland remains. j Not a single workable clow can the ! strapping young victim, a veteran of two wars, give as to the wleldor of the j knife. His experience has created a Isensatlon la medical and police circles and a relentless huut for the man or men who perpetrated the first recorded re-corded theft of vital tissues from a living liv-ing man is In full swing. All WOzniak, who is 33. and married and childless although married 12 years can fell the police Is that he was kidnaped on the street In the dead of night, overpowered and lulled into unconsciousness by an anesthetic. In the morning he found himself lying beneath viaduct and suffering pain 11 had no recollection of the operation. opera-tion. L)r A. S. Sampolinski. who attended Woznlok, declared tonight that revenge re-venge could not hove been the motive. II. pointed out lhat the incision had been made by an export hind. The gland had been removed with Infinite care, and no other harm was done Police 'aptain Thomas Coughlin in charge of the Investigation and himself him-self a student of gland transplantation methods, said he heard of successful operations made on wealthy men; that there might be an epidemic of such gland piracy. "Imagine what a field of crime this might open up," the police captaLi remarked. re-marked. In tnls connection. It was recrllcd that In Edinburgh In the early part of the last century "burking" was practiced, that is, victims were strangled strang-led so lhat they might be used ou the dissecting table. The police, despite numerous theories, theor-ies, clung to the opinion that the gland had been removed from Woznlak lor t ransplantatPm to nome ither man and that the removal e( the vital ttssuei had been accomplished by some one skilled In the profession of surgery. it was for this reason that the hunt tonight had taken the police bacK Into the district, where the strange crime was committed the medical district, it being contended that possibly some medical student, or students, unable to supply a gland ordered by a wealthy and perhaps aged man, had seized upon the idea of removing one t.y force from the first logical candidate that they encountered. |