Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 267, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1912 — CURIOSITY MAY COST ARM. [ARTICLE]

CURIOSITY MAY COST ARM.

Horse Snaps Jaws Together as Philadelphia Youth Tries to Learn Age. Philadelphia. Pa. —Joseph Moore, seventeen years old, of 506 South Fifth street, may lose his right arm as the result of his curiosity to know the age of a horse. Moore was standing at the corner of Fifth and Bainbrldge streets, when he and his companions became interested In knowing the age of a horse at the corner. As Moore attempted to open the animals mouth, so that he could see its ~teeth, it closed its jaws on his hand with a snap. Moore was taken to Mount Biani hospital The doctors fear blood poisoning may develop.