Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 280, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1912 — 9 STITCHES TAKEN IN HEART [ARTICLE]

9 STITCHES TAKEN IN HEART

Remarkable Case In Philadelphia of a Man Who Was Stabbed and Survives Ordeal. Philadelphia.—John Thompson, • negro, has just left the Pennsylvania hospital well and strong after surviving the operation of having nine stitches taken in his heart. Thompson was stabbed in a quarrel seventy-seven days ago. The knife penetrated deep Into his heart and the hospital doctors had little hope of saving his life. He was operated on within two hours and the wound was sewed up without delay. Not only did he live through the operation, but he began immediately to improve and today be was declared as well and as strong as before he wag wounded.