Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1901 — LOST A LEG. [ARTICLE]

LOST A LEG.

Another Case of Where He Didn’t know the Gun Was Loaded, Arthur Tuttle, a blacksmith, formerly employed here, lost his leg at Remington Saturday, from a gun shot wound. Cleve Yeoman, son of Ira W. Yeoman, had taken a shot gun to the shop in which Tuttle was employed, to have it repaired. Young Yeoman supposed the gun was not loaded, and as Tuttle entered the door he pointed the gun at him and pulled the trigger. As usual in a case Of this kind the gun proved to have been loaded rnd Tuttle dropped to the floor with a load of shot in his leg. The limb was so badly mangled that amputation was necessary.