Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 173, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1911 — BROKEN NECK CAUSE OF DEATH. [ARTICLE]

BROKEN NECK CAUSE OF DEATH.

Kentuckian Expires on Train Near Yincennes While En Route Home. Evansville, Ind., July 23.—Jefferson Johnson, 20 years old, of Campbellsville, Ky., who fell out of a cherry tree two weeks ago and broke his neck, died on a Louisville & Nashville railroad train early'this morning as it was approaching this city. Johnson, who had been sent to a St Louis hospital for treatment, was pronounced to be in a hopeless condition, anil returning to his home to die. A physician who escorted him said death was hastened by the jolting of the cars. After the coroner’s inquest here the body was sent to Campbellsville.