Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1909 — GIVES NEGRESS HIS BLOOD [ARTICLE]

GIVES NEGRESS HIS BLOOD

Bellevue. Hospital Employe Makes Sacrifice to Save Woman’s Life. New York, Feb. 2.—Julia Herring, a twenty-seven-year-old negress, was brought to Bellevue hospital suffering from Internal hemorrhage. The surgeons decided that the only hope of saving her life lay in the transfusion of new blood. Several offered their blood, and Gustav Labrink, twenty-five years old, employed at the hospital as fi messenger, was chosen for the operation. About a pint of the white man’s blood was transfused. The negress rallied at first, but later died