Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1918 — SAFETY PIN BRINGS IN $775 [ARTICLE]

SAFETY PIN BRINGS IN $775

Auto Hits Man, Causing Him to Swallow Fastener —Operation Necessary to Remove It. New York. —Mrs. Ann Kelly of Elmhurst, proprietor of a trucking business in Brooltlyn and Long Island City, must pay Joseph .O’Laughlin $775 because O’Laughlin swallowed a safety pip, O’Laughlin was struck by an automobile truck owned by Mrs. Kelly and operated by John Mackey. He had just come from a barber shop and was adjusting the collar of his woolen shirt! The safety pin was in his mouth when the automobile struck him, and the force of the collision caused the man to swallow the pin. An operation was necessary for its reriioval.