Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1919 — WHO FIRST STRUCK CALF? [ARTICLE]

WHO FIRST STRUCK CALF?

Animal Belonging to Tom Cain Is Victim of Automobile. Tom Cain, who resides on the Jackson highway, just north of the Hoover slough bridge, had a large ealf or yearling so badly Injured Sunday evening from being struck by an automobile he had to kill the animal, which was In the highway and was struck by some -passing autolst whose identity was not learned, although Co. Supt. Sterrett might have given It the second or third Jolt, as it was left lying in the road, and the writer followed Sterrett. The accident happened shortly after dark, and there were scores of cars on this road during the early part of the evening. While it occurred about a hundred yards north the bridge, autolsts coming from the south could see but one car that had stopped at the scene, and that headed south, they naturally inferred that It was waiting for them to cross the bridge first, only to find when right at the “killing” that there were three or four autos parked behind one another’on the west side of the road and a dark car parked on the east side and headed north, while some black object lay directly In the middle of the road with a group of people gathered about itSeveral cars came "through before the animal was pulled out of the road and curious autoists realized that there was danger of some of them getting run over. It was indeed miraculous that of the people were not killed. Republican County Chairman George H. McLain was out 4K this road Sunday evening, as were many others, but The Democrat is not charging that he was one of those to strike the animal. But he may be able to Shed some light on the matter.