Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1906 — SAD ACCIDENT TO LITTLE BOY. [ARTICLE]

SAD ACCIDENT TO LITTLE BOY.

Son of Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Lakin Loses Eye as Result of Knife Thrust While Whittling. The 11-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Lakin of near Parr, met with an accident while whittling Monday that caused him to lose one of his eyes. The knife slipped in some way and the point penetrated an eye-ball. The lad was taken to Chicago to a hospital in the hope that the eye 'might be saved, but to no avail, ana Thursday the eye was removed. The lad was an excep tionably bright little fellow and the sympathy of the community goes out to him and his parents in his misfortune.