Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1880 — Something Odd. [ARTICLE]

Something Odd.

The Middletown (N. Y.) Argue tells a strange story about William Startup, who lives near that village. For some time he has had severe pains in his right arm, which he has attributed to rheumatism. Lately he noticed a amii.ll protuberance on his side underneath his arm. His wife made an examination of the excrescence and saw what appeared like a thread in it, lying very near the surface. She got hold of one end of the substance and kept pulling until a piece of thread, about eight inches in* length, was drawn from the body. How this thread got there he does not know, but fancies that 'it was attached to a needle and got into the body in that way, and that the needle is there still. He still has pain in the arm and that portion of the body.