Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1913 — GIRL RECOVERS AFTER SHOCK [ARTICLE]

GIRL RECOVERS AFTER SHOCK

Recovers Powers of Speech and Hearing When Brother Kills SelfYoung Man's Prayer Answered. London. —The suicide of a young man named Percy Curl, of Ashford, Kent, has been followed by his deaf-and-dumb sister regaining Ar powers of speech and hearing. The recovery is supposed to be due to the effect of the shock caused by the death of the girl’s brother. It Is a curious fact that she became deaf and dumb on the day that her brother was born. In his farewell letter the brother wrote: "Dear Mother: I should like to live to see Lily’s hearing restored; I believe it will be some day. 1 have prayed about it for the past five years."