Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1895 — A Dime in His Windpipe. [ARTICLE]

A Dime in His Windpipe.

R. J. Hincheliff, a newspaper solicitor of Pittsburg, after carrying a silver dime in his windpipe for nearly two years, coughed It up the other night. Last December a year ago his child, while sitting- ou his knee, playfully placed a dime with which slie had been playing in her father’s mouth. Hinehcliff, by a movement of tbe head, accidentally swallowed the coin. Doctors told him he need not be worried, as the dime Would dissolve and pass away. They refused to perform au operation. Hincheliff was subject to violent fits of coughing after swallowing the money, and hq was awakened from sleep by such a fit the other evening. Jumping out of bed, he coughed up the dime. lis surface had been corroded. Hincheliff is carrying the piece as a souvenir.