Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1908 — CAUSES A SERIOUS ACCIDENT. [ARTICLE]

CAUSES A SERIOUS ACCIDENT.

Vandals Cnt Harness While Youth is Calling on Girl, and He is Thrown Out of Buggy. Owensville, Ind., Nov. 30. —Joseph Totten, nineteen years old. of Princeton, was seriously injured in a runaway here last night. Totten drove here to visit Miss Alta Montgomery and tied his horse in front of the house. Some Owensville young men cut the harness from the horse with the exception of the traces. When Totten started for home the harness pulled apart and the horse ran away. Totten was thrown out and dragged some distance. Three ribs were broken and he received internal injuries. It is not known who cut the harness Another time Totten came the buggy tires were cut off. \