Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 280, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1912 — DEMOTE BOY KILLED BY THE FAMILY COW [ARTICLE]

DEMOTE BOY KILLED BY THE FAMILY COW

8-Year-Old Son of Charles Haskins H:id Rope A limit Waist —Cow Ran and He Was Killed. The 8-year-old son of Charles Haskins and wife, of DeMotte, was killed this Friday morning at about 8 o’clock in the same manner that many other boys have met their deaths, although this is the first, case, we have known of in this county. The lad had gone to the pasture to get the family cow, which was very gentle and which he was in the habit of riding He had fastened the rope, one end of which was about the cow’s neck, ‘to his body and was mounted on the cow when she started to run. He was thrown off and dragged aldng the road a distance of probably 300 yards. When picked up by persons who had seen the cow running life was extinct. Haskins lives in town and the cow was kept in a pasture about a mile south of town, near which place the boy met his death. Dr. Wells, of DeMotte, was called and he decided that Coroner Wright had better pass on the case and Mr. Wright* left for that place by auto this afternoon at about 3 o’clock.