That a man could possibly live while two pieces of plate glass—one four inches long, oue inch wide, and half an inch thick, and the other of the 6amn width and thickness, but one and a half inches long—were embedded in his chest, would seem impossible. Such, however, was. the case with a man at Brooklyn, United States, who died recenly. . After his death officials of a Brooklyn hospital found the glass, and then learned that twelve years before, when he was IS, the man had been in an accident in which he was thrown through a plate glass window.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 68, 22 March 1933, Page 8
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