Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1913 — WON $1, BUT LOST HIS LIFE. [ARTICLE]

WON $1, BUT LOST HIS LIFE.

Negro Eats Drinking Glass to Buy Ring for His "Best Girl." Brooklyn, N. Ya—Samuel Van Dorn, the elgh teen-year-old son of Abraham Van Dorn, a negro, living on Rockaway Road, Jamaica, died recently from peritonitis. The last thlni he said was: "Dad, I bet 'Jim' Smith a month ago ;hat I could eat a drinking glass. He >et a dollar that 1 couldn't I won my jet, and my dollar’s spent, so what do I car* if I do die.” , Van Dorn bought a ring for his •best £‘rl" with the dollar.