Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1915 — Purdue Wreck Victim Penniless. [ARTICLE]

Purdue Wreck Victim Penniless.

Lafayette, Ind., July 20.—John Taylor, age seventy-three, who was badly injured in the Purdue wreck on the Big Four at Indianapolis, on October 31, 1903, was taken to .the county farm today to spend the rest of his life. Taylor lay between life and death in an Indianapolis hospital several months. He was wealthy at one time. For the last few years he has been selling peanuts, on the streets.