Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1888 — AN UNAUTHENTICATED STORY. [ARTICLE]

AN UNAUTHENTICATED STORY.

A horrible affair is reported fromlhe neighborhood of Guideyork, a small town in Nebraska. John Baker, while feeding a threshing machine on the farm of a man named Weeks, was. accidently cut on the hand by the band cutter, a boy. In a rage he grasped the boy and deliberately fed him into the machine, feet first. The boy’s screams attracted the attention of the other men, but before they could interfere the boy’s body had half disappeared in the machine. The enraged men seized and hanged him to the straw carrier.