Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1914 — Witnesses Amputation Of Both of His Legs. [ARTICLE]

Witnesses Amputation Of Both of His Legs.

•Denver, May 11.—“ Go to it. Doc! Saw ’em off up above those bum knees! That’s it; Good boy, Doc! Say, but that’s some neat job!” William Dunn sat in“an operating chair at the county hospital and smilingly watched the amputation oif his two worthless legs, as he talked. That he wtas able to take a directing part in the operation was due to the use of local anaesthetics. “Now I can get out and earn my own way,” Dunn chatted on, while the surgeon was busy with knife and Saw. The surgeon wlho performed the successful operation on Dunn’s legs has fitted up a crude wheeled chair for his patient to use in selling papers when the leg stumps heal. Duun suffered from locomotor ataxia twelve years.