Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1917 — MINE HUNTING IS HIS JOB [ARTICLE]

MINE HUNTING IS HIS JOB

Englishman With Perilous Occupation la Equipped With an Artificial Jawbone. f , Arthur Hasdley, whose specialty la shooting the contact horns, or triggers, of German mines, arrived the other day from a British port to rest up after two years’ service in rolling trawlers, capturing or destroying mines, the New York Sun states. He is equipped with an artificial jawbone, a silver brace that takes the place of a piece of bone in his left leg and has tost three fingers of his cleft hand. He got the worst of his wounds when he was mine sharpshooter aboard the trawler Grace Mcßae in December, 1914. The boat hit a mine, and when Hasdley came to the surface the Grace was descending in showers of wood and steel and iron. He found a piece of wreckage big enough to support him and was picked up several hours later and sent to the hospital Three months ago he was blown up with the trawler Commodore Bradford when It struck a mine. He will return to the mine hunt within a few months.