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Show Boys' Leg Is Badly Torn By Truck Wheel Franklin Qoodspeed, son of Mrs. Hornlco Qoodspced, woBt Main Street, received sorlous Injury to his loft leg Sunday afternoon when ono of tho lnrgo gravel truck wheels passod over him. Ho Is now at tho local hospital whoro two hours woro required to sow tho wound up. Ills condition is only fair, it Is said, as somo Infection Infec-tion has shown up. Tho lad wna riding his blcyclo near tho D. & It. Q. dopot and in turning around rnn Into ono of tho gravel trucks which was hauling coment nnd grnvol from tho Point of tho Mountain to lowor Mnln Streot. Ono wheel pnssod ovor his log tearing all tho flesh looso from tho shin bono from noar tho knoo to just abovo tho anklo, Two lurgo cuts occurrod just abovo tho kneo on tho Inside. Prom ono of thoso tho wound ran down tho insldo of tho calf to near tho anklo, across tho log to tho outsldo and back up about two-thirds of tho way to tho knoo. Only n small section of skin and (IobIi was loft near tho kneo which hold tho lloshy part of tho log from falling off. Tho akin and llosh of this part of tho log was entlroly looso from tho bono. As soon as possible tho boy was taken to tho hospltnl whoro treatment wna rocolved. It Is thought tho log can bo saved, Dr. Worlton reported yostordny. o |