Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1905 — YOUNG MAN WHO HAS NERVE [ARTICLE]

YOUNG MAN WHO HAS NERVE

Lomu One Hand and Part of tlie Otbev and Kefnsaa to Tnka an Anaesthetler Frankfort. Ind., June 8. Bari Painter, an 18-yenr-old boy employed at the Frankfort handle factory, exhibited remarkable nerve when nn accident befell him at the factory. He wae engaged in cleaning out the sawdust pit when he fell forward Into the pit and, to save himself, he threw out bis hands. The left hand, coming In contact with a rapidly revolving saw, was cut off at the wrist and the light one was badly mangled, the fingers being cut off at the first Joint. When he was dragged from the pit by his companions. seeing that one bond and a portion of the otner were cut off, he remarked: 'When you find my hands in there some place, throw them Into the fire and burn them, as 1 won't need them again,” On being taken to his home he refused to permit the physicians to give him an anaesthetic, snying he wished to witness the operation of trimming his hands. His mother fainted when her son was taken boms.