Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1900 — A Negro’s Nerve. [ARTICLE]

A Negro’s Nerve.

After raining his upper body and resting on his elbow so he could examine the mangled stumps of his legs, which had been crushed beneath the wheels of a railroad train, and out of one of which the naked bone protruded four Inches, ending In a shattered point, Charles Bradford, aged 25, a negro roustabout, asked Sergeant Cole for a cigar, and on getting it lighted he smoked It-with apparent enjoyment For an exhibition of Indifference to pain and composed nerve, the police have never seen nor heard of anything to compare with this. YVhen the man was lifted into the patrol wagon lie asked the opinion of the police as to what were his chances for surviving, and what operation would be necessary when he reached the hospital. If he experienced pain he did not betray the feeling by audible sound, word or gesture. At the City Hospital lie exhibited tlie same stoical indifference. He was put under influence of anaesthetics as a humane measure when the surgeons dressed his frightful injuries. It was the opinion of the surgeons that lie had the nerve to attempt to undergo the operation without being reduced to a merciful state of oblh iou.- Memphis Commer-cial-Appeal.