BALL THAT KILLED NELSON

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3713, 5 October 1926, Page 7

BALL THAT KILLED NELSON

The fatal shot that deprived lingland of her great naval hero. Lord Nelson, was lired (contrary to the received account) at random from the top of the Bedouhtahlo by a I'Tcnch soldier named Hubert Cnilknnarde, who escaped nmvounded, and when Ids ship struck was taken on board the Victory. 'The fatal bullet was not discovered until the \ ietory reached Spithead. It had struck the forepart of the hero’s epaulette and entered his left shoulder. It then descended obliquely into the thorax, fracturing the second and third ribs, and alter penetrating the left lobe ol the lungs and dividing a large branch of the pulmonary artery entered the left side of the spine, passed through the muscles of the’ hack, and lodged there. A considerable portion of the gold lace pad and silk cord <>f the epaulette, u j(li piece of coat, were found attached to it, whilst the gold kmc was as (innly Hexed as though it had been inserted info the metal whilst in a state of fusion. Ihe hall, together with the lace, was mounted in •■rystai and silver, and presented by Captain Hardy to Mr ('afterwards Sir_ W.) Health*, the surgeon of the N mlory. who died in I^l-.

Toucher; “Why did you I"* 1 "' 1 ' Johnny Jones:'" Ih)}’ <is hr I.ilk-' like* :i gr;imo{>!ioin‘, sir. l onchcr: “ Hold out your hand. f • 1 • have a had record yonrselt.”