The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-01-30
OVERDID HER TASK, WEDDING
POSTPONED INDEFINITELY
Girl SEARCHED Fiance's Shirt So 1t
Took Hide Off Him When he Tied
Shirt to Barn and jumped.
(St. Louis Globe-Democrat)

\oL. LOUIS GlODe-DemOcraC)
WEsSON, Mississippi, Dec. 81
AS result of what might be called
an accident, or bad Judgment, which
occurred recently, there are two very
sad hearts today, a wedding knocked
out or put off Indefinitely, and
young man by the name of John o.
Farrell has been conveyed to a hos
pital for repairs, and from all ap-
pearances he will have to be made
over almost entirely as in his pres:
ent fix he is most pitiful object.
The misfortune came about, it is
said, in this way: John had been
counting what he termed the sweet
est and most Industrious young lady
in the community where he lived,
some ten miles out in the country
from here, and they had contracted
to get married this Christmas Eve
night and were looking forward to
that day with glad hearts. A few
days ago, it is said, the girl told
John she wanted an opportunity to
prove to him before they were marri-
ed that she could launder his shirts
just as good as she had been telling
him she could, and he complied with
her request to bring her his best
Sunday shirt for her to fix up.
She proceeded to launder it and in
doing SO put five pounds of starch in
the one shirt, and when he came to
the appointed time for it she had the
garment laundered so stiff that it
would stand up lone. He told her
he was delighted and was sure she
was the finest girl in the all world,
and he carried the short home, put it
on and wore it to town and got soak
ing wet in a rain. He went into
store to warm and dry out. When
he got home that night, as he did
not have on any undershirt, he did
not take the shirt his girl had laun-
dered off, but crawled into bed and
slept in it.
/ The next morning he decided to
pull the shirt off and let his intend
ed wife try her hand on it again but
when he proceeded to take the gar
ment off his body he was Mortified to
find it was sticking so tightly to his
hide that he could not pull it off at
all. He was at loss to know what
to do, but would not say word to
his parents.
Finally he went out to the barn,
crawled up in the loft, removed sew
eral planks, fastened the button end
Of the shirt to the joists and jumped
out like spring frog jumping into
a creek. The shirt came off all
right, but brought with it Johns al
most entire hide, with large pieces
Of flesh hanging to it. He tainted
when he hit the floor below, and was
found unconscious by some workmen
a little while afterward. 1t was
some minutes before the workmen
could get them selves together to un-
derstand the situation, but when one
looked up and saw the shirt hanging
to the joists an investigation follow
ed and the whole secret was at once
solved. The local doctor was called
at once, and he said upon arrival
that the case was beyond his know
ledge, and the young man would
have to be hurried to a hospital,
where they were prepared to remake
a fellow as badly disfgured as John
was. 1t is said that when the girl
in the case learned what had hap
pened she tainted, and is reported to
be in a dangerous condition at this
time.