Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1916 — DOES MOVIE ACT; SUES CITY [ARTICLE]

DOES MOVIE ACT; SUES CITY

Rochester Man Goes Through Some Rough Work With Auto on Road. r Rochester, N. Y. —Arthur E. Brown did about everything expected of a slapstick motion picture comedian out the Scottsville road the other night, according to his adventures as told in a claim for sllO filed against the city.

Mr. Brown was operating an automobile through an unlighted detour, when a rear wheel went into mud considerably over the rim and refused to budge. Brown went around to the recalcitrant wheel and tried to pull the car free. Instead, according to the complaint, this happened: “I sank deep into the soft earth or ashes and fell Into a hole filled with iron, tin cans, sticks and other sorts of rubbish, sustaining a deep cut or gash on my right hand, bruises on my left side directly under my left arm, a severe jarring, causing me to become sick, sore, lame and disabled, and I am still sick, sore, lame and disabled, and my suit of clothes worn at this time became soaked with filthy water and mud and is ruined, and my eyeglasses were jarred from my nose and were broken. A sharp iron projecting about two feet broke the right eyeglass and tore the right corner of my eye.”