Mary R. Brown, 27, trained nurse, saved the family of a delirious man, by disarming him of a revolver, Washington, D. C., December 20, 1909. Miss Brown, having been shot in the right breast by a typhoid-fever patient, grasped him from behind as he started toward his family in another room with the loaded revolver. A struggle ensued, at the end of which she secured the weapon. Miss Brown was recovering from her wound when she suffered a relapse, and she died 17 days following the accident. 4606-412
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