Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-02-24 | Page 8 | Surgical Operation was not Successful

SURGICAL OPERATION WAS NOT SUCCESSFUL Los Angeles. Cal , Feb. 21. Richard Whcaton, for many years a British soldier, is dead at the county hospital nf aneurism of the aorta a rupturo of the walls of the great artery whlctt carries the blood from the heart. Two veeks ago Wheat was the subject ot a rare and interesting operation, wherein 20 feet of silver wire wa3 colled inside the artery', in tho hop that it would strengthen the walls. The operation was his only chance ot life He would have died within a few t'ays without it and for a time it loomed that he would survive.