DEATH FROM THE PRICK OF A PEN.
The German papers give an account of the death of a clergyman from a wound caused by that apparently innocent instrument, a steel pen. Pjfarrer Franz Motz, of Puchirchen, :was in tho habit of sticking his pens in the holes of his inkstand with their points (upward. Leaning over to look more closely at a book which was propped up. on the further side of the inkstand the point of a pen accidentally pricked him. The wound was so insignficant that he took no notice of it at the time ; but the following day the pain became so great that he sent for a physician, who found that it was a very bad case of bloodpoisoning. In spite of all remedies the virus got such a grasp upon his system that, after. eight weeks of increasing suffering, he died from this casual prick of a pen.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 874, 27 August 1879, Page 2
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153DEATH FROM THE PRICK OF A PEN. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 874, 27 August 1879, Page 2
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