Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1913 — BILLY RUGH NOT TREATED RIGHT [ARTICLE]

BILLY RUGH NOT TREATED RIGHT

Illinois Relative of Newsboy Hero Says That Honor Was Empty and Blames Gary. i . 1-- i Relatives of Billy Rugh, the Gary newsboy who gave his crippled leg and his life to save a girl he did not know, say that Gary has been getting a lot of notoriety out of Billy’s sacrifice and that Billy’s estate and money furnished by relatives have paid all expenses. Mrs. Ida McCabe, of Rack Island, 111., says that he had been promised that all his penses at the hospital and everything would be paid, but tnat this was not done and that the surgeon still remains unpaid, while the funeral expenses were paid out of funds •Billy had saved and by relatives. Throughout the preparations for Billy to go to the hospital and during the time he was there Gary was proclaiming to the world what it was going to do for the newsboy hero; but It did not do anything, except to hold a big public funeral. Considerable money was Contributed for a memorial but no attempt is being made to establish it, Mrs. McCabe says. It is believed by some that Mrs. McCabe is mistaken, and that the memory of the newsboy will be properly preserved.