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Show LEG IS BROKEN DURING PARADE Boy Riding Pony Struck By Truck Driven By Brigham Man William MIddleton, 14-year-old son of John Ij. MIddleton. teamster. Thlr-Jty-first street and Jackson avenue, suffered a broken leg nt noon todaj 'when he and a pony which he was j riding, was knocked down On Twenty-sixth Twenty-sixth street above Washington ave-nue, ave-nue, by a truck operated by Brnesl Bassett, 22. R. K. D. No. 2. Hicham City. According to the story of a bov com- pa n Ion. the Mld.lteton boy's ponv was I Struck by Ihe truck thai vv.is l.elnu driven through the circus crowd by Bassett. When the ponv was struck , it carried the hoy to the pavement, breaking the boy's le just above the I nkb The drive,- ,,( ii,, .,r,-i f)jd not Btap to offer any assistance after the accident. ac-cident. It was declared but was overtaken over-taken by the county motorcycle police i officer, George Theobold, at Twenty- eijchth street and J.fferson avchue.l laftf-r lie had secured only a meagre de-scriptlon de-scriptlon of the truck and driver The injured boy was taken t" the office of Dr. E C. Rich where an I x-ray picture was taken of the frac-1 tured bone. At the police station aj short time later. City Physician Roy i Wlls.Mi applleil a ieniMir.ir4 splint: and tin- buy was removed to the I e Hospital where he was attended bv Dr. E. C Rich. 00 |