Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1907 — ANOTHER ODD FINGER ACCIDENT [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER ODD FINGER ACCIDENT

Harry B. Murray, carrier on Rural Route No. 4, got a finger hurt about as badly and in a manner fully as unusual as did Thomas Crockett last Friday evening. He had driven up to one of the mail boxes on his route and, without getting out of his wagon, was just in the act of taking out some mail in the box, when his horses sud denly started off of themselves, and some kind of a hook-like projection in the mail box caught the inside of Harry’s third, or ring finger, on on which he was wearing a very strong and heavy gold ring. The hook not only cut deep into the finger, but it caught on to this ring, pulli-ng that off in such a way as to ent off all the flesh and skin from over half the length of the finger. It is thus a very badly injured finger, but the physician thinks he will be able to save it, if blood poisoning or other furm of infection does not appear, but it will be a very bad and painful sore for a long time.