Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1907 — AGED LADY RECEIVES BAD FALL. [ARTICLE]

AGED LADY RECEIVES BAD FALL.

Mrs. Mary E. Thompson, widow of Alfred Thompson, met with a very serious accident Wednesday night. She had gotten out of bed about 11 o’clook and went to the kitohen to get a drink. In turning to leave she Evidently opened the wrong door, that leading to the basement, and fell down the stairs to the cement floor beneath. Perhaps a quarter of an hour later her daughter, Mrs. F. A. Ross, heard groans and on investigating the cause found beT lying on the basement floor badly hurt. On a doctor’s being called it was found that both her arms were broken, each between the elbow and wrist, and a cut in the scalp and an indentation of the skull in the forehead, a slight fracture but not enough to press on the brain. She is in the neighborhood of 77 years of age and the shock was a great one to her. A rather bad day was put in Thursday, but yesterday she was better and it is thought will recover all right.