REMARKABLE SEQUEL TO AN ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
0 ' Vienna, February 13. A young man who tried to commit suicide in the Court Opera House under dramatic circumstances last night is now in a hospital with several stitches in his heart. It is possible that he may recover. Immediately after the curtain descended on the last act of " Rigoletto " last night the audience in the opera house, were startled to hear two shots fired in an upper box. - The attendants who rushed to the box found a young man in evening dress lying on the floor with two wounds in his chest. He was hnrried to the hos - pital, where the surgeons found that both bullets had ]ssrforated the heart. Although there seemed liltle likelihood of his recovery, the surgeons decided on an operation, and the perforat ed heart was carefully stitched. The wounded man rallied well, and tonight the surgeons are hopeful that this remarkable operation may prove successful. The identity of the man has not been ascertained. He left a memorandum asking that the announcement of his death bz sent to a former sweet heart, who lives in Budapest.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue XXXVIII, 18 April 1910, Page 3
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