Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1910 — “JOKE” HAS SERIOUS SEQUEL. [ARTICLE]

“JOKE” HAS SERIOUS SEQUEL.

Attica, July 29. —Ruby Idle, a feebleminded youth, was told by joking hangers-on at the Wabash railway station yesterday that wild strawberries were plentiful across the river. He started to cross the railroad bridge and before foe had reached the opposite end was caught by a train. As the engine was almost upon him the boy leaped from the bridge, landing on his head in a cornfield on the bank of the Wabash river thirty feet below. He suffered a concussion of the brain and is in a critical condition.