AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Grey River Argus, 26 April 1929, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AMAZING RECOVERY. BRISBANE, April IQ. An amazing story comes from Wynnum of an aged man, who, shot through the head, rerused medical aid, but treated the wound with turpentine. He has now almost completely recovered from the injury. Mr Larsen, an aged man, boarding with Mrs Mitchell, Station-street, Manly, was accidentally shot through the head on Saturday last. He was working in the back garden, when he heard a sharp crack like a rifle shot from the direction of the railway station, which adjoins the property. Simultaneously he felt a searing pain in his head, and fell, stunned. It was found that tome object, presumably a bullet, had gone right through the top of the skull, making a clean passage. Although eonfined to his bed for some days, during which he refused to see a doctor, but preferred to paint the wounds with turpentine, the old man is now sufficiently recovered to get up. It if? thought the bullet may have gone through the two parietal bones, which form the upper part of the skull, without actually touching the brain. The matter was reported to the police, who are now carrying out investigations.