Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1915 — BOY KILLED BY AUTO NEAR BROOK [ARTICLE]

BOY KILLED BY AUTO NEAR BROOK

7-Year-Old Randolph Conn Crushed Under Car Driven By His Broth- \ er-In-Law Friday P. M.

Randolph Conn, 7-years-old son ox Mr. and Mrs. Sam Conn, living a mile west of Brook, was killed Friday afternoon at about 4:30 o’clock by being run over by an automobile driven by his brother-in-law, Everett Bell, of Brookston. The little boy was on hjs, way to his home from the Brook school, accompanied by another boy. When almost to his home he met nis brother-in-law and wife and two other ladies in an automobile. Mr. Bell and those with him had been visiting at the home of Mrs. Bell’s father, Sam Conn, and were on their way back to Brookston. The boys climbed on the running board of the car, thinking that Mr*. Bell was going to Brook and then back Vo the Conn home. After they had gone some little distance, Mr. ,Bell told the boys that he was not going back to Mr. Conn’s and that they had better jump off the car. As they went to jump one of the ladies caught hold of the little Conn boy’s coat, thinking to steady him, but instead seems to have swung his body about so that it fell beneath the rear wheel the car, which passed over his body. The little form was picked* up and taken to the office of Dr. Larrison in Brook, but life was extinpt when that office was reached 1 . Examination disclosed that the chest was crushed and that the ribs were torn loose from the backbone. The funeral have not been m&de yet today, the sorrowing parents scarcely being able to compose themselves sufficiently to make the plans. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Lowe, of this city, relatives of the Conn family, Were called to Brook this Saturday morning.