Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1887 — MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. [ARTICLE]

MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.

A Chicago Man, After Being Sat Upon by a Coroner’s Jury, Arises anil Walks. [Chicago special.] Michael Hofnosky, the young man who put a bullet through the head of his mistress, and a second one into his own, is reported as doing nicely at the County Hospital. The day after the shooting the Coroner summoned his witnesses and repaired to the hospital to hold the inquest upon the body pursuant to the report sent in, but when he came to examine the subject it was lound that life was not extinct. After a comatose condition of three days, consciousness suddenly returned, and this morning, when the nurse made her visit, the patient was walking the floor and calling for food. His recovery is a surprise to the surgeon. Hofnosky’s victim, with a hole through her jaws, is also on the road to recover}*.