Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1907 — HIS FOREFINGER TORN OFF. [ARTICLE]

HIS FOREFINGER TORN OFF.

T. A. Crockett met with a peculiar accident last Friday evening. He was returning a horse which be had been using to Wm. Day, leading it by a hitch strap behind a buggy. On crossing the sidewalk at Mr. Day’s one of the harness tugsof the horse that was being led dropped down and she stepped on the tug, stopping her suddenly. The strap that Tom held became wrapped about the forefinger of his right hand and brought the hand up against the bows of the buggy top finger was pulled off at the second joint quicker than one could say Jack Robinson, only a few ligaments remaining to show where the finger had been. Mr. Crockett went at once to a doctor who amputated the stump about midway between the second joint and the knuckle and pulled the skin over it and dressed it, and except for causing considerable pain the first day or two it is getting along nicely.