Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 260, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1914 — FITZ W. BEDFORD FRACTURED LEFT HIP [ARTICLE]

FITZ W. BEDFORD FRACTURED LEFT HIP

Aged Man Living East of Rensselaer Fell Backward With Result That May Prove Fatal Fitz W. Bedford, one pf the old est citizens of Marion township, yho has lived just east of this city for a great many years, suffered an injury this Tuesday morning that will go very hard with him and which may cost this life. Mr. Bedford was 86 years of age the Bth of June and has been feeble for a number of months. He was a man of 'spirit, however, and went about his daily pursuits without thought of giving up. He had a housekeeper but no near relatives to look after .him. This morning at about 6 o’clock or a little later he went out to do his feeding and as he was coming out of the corn crib with a basket of corn he stumbled and fell backward. His hip was fractured, the upper end of the femur and a part' of the pelvic bone being fractured. He lay in the yard almost an hour when he was found by his housekeeper, Mrs, Norris, who procured help and he was taken to the house and Dr. Loy called. He found the aged man suffering from the shock and regards his chances for recovery rather remote. Mrs. Jack Warner, now of Remington, is a sister, and Win 8. Bed-ford,-of Kansas, is a brother. He was also the second husband of the mother of Norman and Marsh Warner.