Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1911 — Boy Plays Spartan. [ARTICLE]

Boy Plays Spartan.

Cincinnati.—An example of great fortitude has been brought to the notice of the Cincinnati police. When a patrol wagon rushed to the scene of an accident, the crew found a boy of 19, who gives the name of John Cronin, of Indianapolis, sitting calmly against a telegraph post, with both his legs cut off. He had tried to board a freight train and had fallen beneath the Wheels. After the accident he crawled to the pole and braced himself against It A passer-by noticed him. "What’s tbe matter?” asked the stranger. “Nothing much,” he answered; “Just lost both my feet—that's aU.” Then the atranger called the police.