Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1917 — LIVES WITH BRAIN EXPOSED [ARTICLE]

LIVES WITH BRAIN EXPOSED

Top of Head Blown Off by Shotgun, Bernard Archer, May Yet Recover Health. r McKittrick,' Wis.—Bernard Archer/ of this city, is still living, after jartjofL his skull was blown, away by the discharge of his shotgun. The movement of his brain can plainly be seen. Archer was returning from a claybird shooting event when a rabbit ran across the road in front of him. In g<>. ing through the brush his gun was knocked from his hand and was discharged as it struck the ground. He was stilf able to walk into town after the accident and has never been unconscious.