Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 279, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1914 — BULLETS FAIL TO KILL HIM [ARTICLE]

BULLETS FAIL TO KILL HIM

British Army Officer Has Many Close Calls From Death in Battle Line. s 4. ' London. —Lieut. A. C. Johnston, well known as Hants county’s premier cricketer, is beginning to believe that he bears a charmed life. He has been sent home wounded from the front, but he said he considers himself mighty lucky to be even -alive. He had many narrow escapes from death. The day before he was wounded the nose of a shell hit a wall six Inches over his head. Shortly after a bullet hit the ground a half yard ahead of him, glanced up and hit him on the Jjody, oily bruising him. Then a bullet hit him over the heart, "but it was spent,” and he picked it out of his breast pocket and sent it home to his wife as a souvenir. His final escape came while he was sitting on the steps of a house. Half the building was blown up and he was not even touched.