Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1913 — Tommy Thompson Fractured Left Arm Monday Afternoon. [ARTICLE]

Tommy Thompson Fractured Left Arm Monday Afternoon.

Tommy, the 9-year-old eon of Mr. an<d Mrs. Ray D. Thompson, fractured his left arm Monday afternoon, both bones being broken above the wrist. He was driving his pony, hitched to a cart, and was near the tile mill, north of town, when some man, to Tommy unknown, caught hold of the wheel of the cart and struck the pony. The pony shledt the cart tipped partly over and Tommy fell out and alighted with his arm doubled under him and the fracture resulted. He was brought to town and the injured arm set. His father has been trying to find out who it was that caught hold of the wheel and has been Informed that it was a man who liVes near the tile plant. The man' has so far failed to call on Mr. Thompson to explain or undertake to explain his very coarse joke Naturally Mr. Thompson is very angry and he ‘hopes that he won!t run across the fellow until he is cooled off a little