Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1911 — Another Version of Manner Ray Day Broke His Leg. [ARTICLE]

Another Version of Manner Ray Day Broke His Leg.

Lee Richards objected to having his name coupled with the other beys who were at Cedar Lake when the accident happened to Ray Day. He says he did not go there with them and did not know they were coming and that he “just happened” to be there when the accident occurred. -A later version of the way the accident occurred is now being circulated. The story is to the effect that Day became intoxicated soon after the. boys reached Cedar Lake and that the saloonkeeper was tantalizing him and trying to get him to either box or wrestle. He did not want to do either but the saloonkeeper bullied him and finally caught hold of him after slapping him several times. They tussled Just a little and then fell and Ray’s leg was broken. The saloonkeeper thought he was feigning and tried to make him stand on the broken leg, according to one of the boys. After he found that the limb was broken he became alarmed and sent for the Lowell doctor, and paid him S3O. so it is said. Since Ray is only 18 years of age, it is probable that things can be made very uncomfortable for the saloonkeeper if the reported stpry is true. The local physiqian set the limb Friday afternoon. He said that the dressing that the Lowell doctor had given it was about all that could have been done at an emergency call. He thinks the limb had been set but had slipped out again. It is quite a bad break arid will lay the young mat; up for some time. His father, Hiram Day, is reported to have gone to Cedar Lake today 7 , to ascertain the mannei in which the injury was Incurred. He will probably make things hot if tlisaloonkeeper is responsible.