Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 December 1941 — Page 4
POWDER PULF
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More than 50 per cent at the chil: :
dren borm in this inters
marrying and shut<in group have too v5 of
Sages and 100 TALS Wen aa Spe er T. Snedécor ‘has been su
been treating web«<fingers
that are another trait in the Sroup. y
By a two-stage plastic
process, helt removes the Webbing which binds After these operations, Ne reports, | 2
the patients are able to walk and run: without pain, ahd hands, w not aesthetically ‘beautiful, funetion normally,
Traced Back fo 1776 Dr. Snedecor, who Has traced the
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genetic history of the group through!)
four generations, says that they are descendants of English women and others from the West Indies who
were brought to New York during
the American Revolution. Later, they went to livé in the Ramapo
Mountains of New Jersey where!)
other polyglot t For 150 years, the inter-marrying group has remained isolated, very shy of. strangers and ignoring most
of the benefits of civilisation not
far away from them. ’ A public -health nurse who ‘won
joined them. |
their trust began bringing the chile |B. ea dren: to Dr, Snedecor -at a hospital |g * for treatment and study. - The sx ffm
digits, he finds, were passed alo by both male and female 2 Sins and generally developed. in-the sec«
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ond and third generation in about 4
50 per cent of the children.
In one family where a. great-|§
grandfather was said to be .part|BA
British, Hessian, and Indian and|}.4
s|lived to old age, and the grand- |i
mother lived be. 83, the fourth|k generation of children showed seven out of nine individuals with extra |
, | fingers and toes.
A Diffoult Operation Removing an extra digit: is
*|simple, says Dr. Snedecor, X rags
are first néeded to show. the bony c¢onnections and fo guide. in hifching the tendons of the removed part to tendons of the next digit. Usually the extra digit has been attached
>leither to thé littlé finger or toe or
to the thumb r big toe. a aré more difficult to treat surgically than hands. Even
Viafter an operation and a month in
a plaster cast the feet are not éntirely normal, but shoes may: be worn for the first time and toes ean be kept in fairly" satisfactory Lo
fered ht ‘diet defi
2 | were living to themsélvés iti poverty,
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isolated from civilization for a cen-|$
tury, Snedecor Fives that - this
Caroling group is the only case re-|§
sembling the New Jersey colony.
COLLIE JONES TRIAL NEARING ITS END
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Dec. 4 (U. P.) —Only & final plea by the de~ fense and g arguments by the State ¥ today in the firstdegree m trial of Cozzie M. Jones before the case goes. to 2 12-main Vige Circuit jury. Indication that the State may ask | 8 life ‘ imprisonment rather than the
death penalty for: the 23-year-old |t
West Terre Haute youth, accused of
the slaying of 12-year-old Edith|}
Barton, was revealed yesterday dur~
ing Deputy Prosecutor William Lit |® tlefield’s day-long summation of the j
State’s tase. Mr. Littlefield referred repeatedly to the similarity of the crim chétged to the youth to that
D. -€. ‘Stephenson, former Ku-Klusl|@
Klan leader and politician who is
a life term for the murder [J
serving of Madge Oberholtzer in 1925. The uty prosecutor c
that ep seduction was pre- (3
meditated, and that Jones delibkilled her by holding her head eath the water of the excell where‘ her nude body was found. The
of April 20, but denied any part in |g
het death, insisting sne fell into thé ertel when she became frightened A fled. from his automobile.
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