Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1920 — DASTARDLY DEED COMMITTED ON HELPLESS MAN [ARTICLE]

DASTARDLY DEED COMMITTED ON HELPLESS MAN

Excelsior Springs, Mo., June 17.1 —George M. Underwood, who lost a hand and a leg last night when' bandits tied him to a railroad track five minutes before a train passed, today told the story of his experience and denied that the men had any motive that he knew of except robbery. Underwood is expected to recover. “An hour or so after dark, he said, “as I was walking to the station to catch a train for Carrollton, Mo., my home, two men with a touring car forced me into the car and took my watch and S7O. They drove south, and one of the men said ‘let’s kill the — -. | ‘No,’ returned the other, we will tie him to the railroad track.’ 1 “We stopped at a pile of barbed wire and one of the men got several long strands of it. We stopped again, and I was struggling to escape, I heard the rumble of the approaching train. I tried to scream , but rags in my mouth _ throttled |my voice. As the engine came ; within a few rods of me, I threw all of my strength into another ati temt to escape. My right hand i was free at last and I tore the gag from my mouth, screaming? Then I loosened my right leg and swung partly free from the track but my left foot and hand were too tightly bound to be released. “Something seemed to sting my 1 entire body. I suppose I fainted for a moment, but soon I was screaming again. A farmer came from somewhere and helped to untie the barbed wire which was still partly strung around my body.

There will be meeting at our house Saturday evening at 7:30, also Sunday morning at 10:00 a. m., afternoon at 2:30 and evening at 7:30. There will be a minister to teach the word. Block east and block south of hospital, 403 South Weston street. Free for all. John Fenwick. \ •; ’ '

W. I. Spitler is having his Cullen street bungalow restuccoed.