Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1915 — MARSHAL ROBINSON BREAKS LEFT LEG [ARTICLE]

MARSHAL ROBINSON BREAKS LEFT LEG

Horse Frightened at Charlie Chaplin Kicks Officer Who Is Riding On Load of Cinders. Marshal Vern Robinson suffered a badly broken leg Friday afternoon as a result of the virit here of one of the numerous impersonators of Charles ChaPlin. The visiting comedian had come here to help advertise a Charley Chaplin comedy at the Rex theatre and had gone to the school house to amuse the scholars just as school was out in the afternoon. The boys were having a lot of fun with Chaplin, who was doing his best to do something funny and who climbed on to the back of the wagon load of cinders which the marshal was hauling with a one-horse rig. The horse became frightened and one tug came unhitched and as the marshal tried to stop the horse the wagon ran up against its legs and it began to kick and Mr. Robinson was struck on the left leg, the cork of the animal’s shoe penetrating the skin and breaking the tibia or large bone about half way between the ankle and the knee. He was removed to the school house apd a call for doctors sent out. Drs. Johnson and English responded and found that the fracture was of a compound nature, the bone having shattered and pierced through the muscles. It was dressed in good shape by the doctors and Vern was removed to his home, where he spent a very comfortable night He will be laid up for several weeks probably.