Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1918 — GETS A BROKEN NOSE IN 2,000 FOOT FALL [ARTICLE]

GETS A BROKEN NOSE IN 2,000 FOOT FALL

Lieut. Pat O’Brien, of Momence, 111., British royal flying corps, who survived a battle with four German airplanes, was taken prisoner, leaped from a moving train, wandered more thap two months through enemy territory arid who finally reached Holland and safety, tonight is suffering a broken nose, caused by the second fall of his adventurous career which according to observers, resulted when he took liberties with a student training type of airplane at at Kelley field. Apparently O’Brien’s only injury after * 2,000-foot fall but Kelly field physicians refused to but Kelley field pysiclans refused to allow him to leave this afternoon for Houston lest it develop that he also was injured internally.