Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1887 — Death from Loekjaw. [ARTICLE]

Death from Loekjaw.

Wm. Dale Riley, formerly of Shelbyville, died at Greensburg, Thursday morning, of lockjaw, after intense suffering. Several days prior to his death his hand was crushed, but he refused to have it amputated, and said to his attending physician that if his hand had to go he preferred to go with it. - .