DEAD MAN'S EYES
' may provide sight CORNEAS TRANSPLANTED SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 23 A murderer's eyes may enable a four-year-old boy and a 25-year-old man to see. A physician has transplanted to their blind eyes the corneas from tlie eyes of John Deering, executed Utah murderer. Deering died before a firriig squad. Before his execution he offered his body to science. An electro-cardiograph, attached to Deering's body before he faced the firing squad, showed that his heart beat for 15.6 seconds after he had been struck by four bullets, one of -which penetrated his heart. Although Deering was apparently nonchalant in his last moments, a rei cord of his pulse rate showed a leap from the normal 72 to 180.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23213, 6 December 1938, Page 11
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