WOUNDED MAN MAY DIE IF HE LAUGHS
NEW YORK, Dec. 26. Dectors have warned Peter Lawson, aged 38, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, he may die if he laughs. Shot in a gun battle with a former friend. Lawson, a motor mechanic, has bullet holes in his lungs and a bullet in his heart. Each time Lawson breathes the bullet in his heart moves a little nearer one of the ventricles 1 Doctors say a laugh or a chuckle may dislodge the bullet and cause it to clog the venticle, and Lawson would die. Lawson spends four or five hours a day blowing bubbles in a glass of water to strengthen his lungs.
However. Lawson considers his main trouble is the charge against him of having murdered his former friend, Buck Bowman, aged 42, in the gun battle.
“But I’m really not worrying,” said Lawson. “I figure when its your time to go you’ll go.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22850, 21 January 1949, Page 6
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