Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1910 — LIVES WITH BULLET IN BRAIN [ARTICLE]

LIVES WITH BULLET IN BRAIN

Evansville Colored Youth Puzzles Physicians With Vitality. Evansville, Ind., Dec. 30.—Semiconscious and with a bullet Imbedded three inches deep in bis brain, Leroy Hackner. 12 years old, colored, is furnishing a remarkable example of vitality and reversal of accepted rules The boy was s hot by his cousin, Herbert Hackner, who accidentally discharged a flobert rifle, a Christmas gift, last Sunday. Dr Thomaß Maeer says he has an even chance for recovery. One side of his bbdy is partly paralyzed.