Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1907 — TOM DID BREAK A LEG. [ARTICLE]

TOM DID BREAK A LEG.

Michigan City papers confirm the statement published in last week’s Democrat —copied from the Starke County Democrat—regarding Tom McCoy having broken a leg at the penitentiary where he is in charge of „one of the prison teams. The injury was received in jumping from his wagon to the ground, the bone of the leg being snapped off just above the knee. Regarding the matter the Michigan City News says: “Acting Warden Garner of the state prison states that Tom McCoy, the former Rensselaer banker, did break his leg, but that the accident happened after McCoy returned from his parole. McCoy has employment as teamster and while hauling a load of cement the other day MoCoy jumped from the wagon J to the ground so hard that he broke his right leg in the fleshy part above the knee. McCoy is now in the prison hospital.