KEPT ALIVE BY BULLET
While a bullet lodged in the heart of an Arkansas State representative, Mr. W. U. McCabe, is allowed to remain there he will live, according to the debtors attending him in hospital at Little Rock. Mr. McCabe was wounded when a bullet was fireu through the door of his hotel room. The seriousness of the wound probably was the indirect cause of keeping him alive, the doctors explain. They say his heart action was so weak that a blood clot was able to form in the hole made by the bullet, seal’ng the wound. The bullet must remain in | the heart. To remove it would cause I
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 139, 15 June 1931, Page 11
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