Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1913 — FALLS OFF TRAIN; IS LUCKY [ARTICLE]

FALLS OFF TRAIN; IS LUCKY

St Louis Orphan Lad Has an Extraordinary Experience on Kansas Railroad. Strong City, Kan. —When Harry O’Brien, a fourteen-year-old orphan from St. Louis, tumbled from the blind baggage of a train running at a thirty mile an hour clip here, he did not know that he was dropping into a home where he would be cherished and loved. Charles Beach, city marshal here, picked O’Brien up, bruised and bleeding, and took him to his bouse to give him care. So attached did Marshal Beach and his wife be come to the boy that they decided to keep him, and announced that they probably would- adopt him. O'Brien, with a companion, Ernest Stone, was beating his way to Tulsa, Okla., where Stone’s grandmother lives. Stone, who was.not hurt, continued the journey to Tulsa on a ticket purchased for him by merchants.