Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1901 — Runaway Boy Is Killed. [ARTICLE]

Runaway Boy Is Killed.

John Wymer, a 15-year-old Davenport (la.) schoolboy, while running away from home, fell under the wheels of a flight train in Rock Island, 111., and both legs cut off. He died in the hospital there. His relatives blame traveling hypnotists for the boy’s waywardness and death, claiming that until he became a subject at hypnotic exhibitions during the past two winters he was bright and steady.