Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1889 — LIVING WITH A BROKEN NICK. [ARTICLE]

LIVING WITH A BROKEN NICK.

Remarkable Case of Maurice Adler, the Victim of a Pistol Shot. Maurice Adler, who was shot in the neck on the night of July 18th- last, by Frank K. Ward, at Washington, D. C., Still lives,and an operation was performed on him, Friday. -It is a most remarkable case. Although his body has been almost completely paralyzed ever since the shooting, and he has been spoken of as the “man with a live head and a dead body,” he has lingered for more than eight weeks, and seems to he no nearer death now than he was the day after the shooting. The spinous process and the laminae were removed, shd the pressure was thus taken off the cord. It was found that the ball, after striking the fourth cervical vertebra;, had glanced off, but in what direction could not be seen. Its present location is unknown. The patient bore the operation well, and was much easier after it V