Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1909 — FALLS FROM PONY AND BREAKS LEG. [ARTICLE]

FALLS FROM PONY AND BREAKS LEG.

W. B. Walters of Hanging Grove township, bought the pony sold at the Moulds’ sale last Thursday as a present for his little seven-year-old son. Will wanted to break the boy in at oncfe on riding It, and the same afternoon placed the boy on its bare back. The pony felt good and wanted to show off a little, too. It bucked a little, the boy got scared and hollered like a Cornmanche Indian,' and before Will Afraid get to him he was on the ground with a broken leg, his right limb being broken below the knee. A Rensselaer doctok* was called up by ’phone and was soon on the scene and set the broken member, and the boy is now getting, along all right. He, don’t want to ride another pony without a saddle, however. ' Mr.. Walter is not blaming the pony at all, but has concluded that he was just a little previous in iniating the boy into riding it. He thinks if the little fellow had not got scared and hollered the pony would not have thrown him.