1473 EDMONTON DAILY
JUNE 20, 1907

NICHTER, John
FRANKLIN, Joseph

John Nichter, who is employed in Edmonton bottling works, in cutting 
material for boxes, met with an painful accident yesterday evening about 5 
o'clock. While sawing a small board his thumb was caught in the little 
circular saw and almost severed. The bone was so badly shattered that the 
thumb had to be amputated by Drs. Braithwaite and Robertson at the 
public hospital.

Joseph Franklin, a farmer from Independence, was brought to the city 
hospital last evening suffering from a bruised hand. Mr. Franklin, in 
company with another man, was driving stakes in the ground. He slipped, 
and in the act of falling caught the stake just as his companion delivered a 
heavy blow on the top of the stake with a sledge hammer. The blow caught 
Mr. Franklin on the thumb, bruising it so severely that a portion was 
amputated by Dr. Hilop.