PINT, Donald 1900-1928

PINT, BOWERS, SWARTZROCK, LOOMIS, SUMAKER

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 9/13/2012 at 11:56:41

#1:

MOTORCYCLE MAN
IS NEAR DEATH
MOTORIST SOUGHT

DONALD PINT IS RUN OVER
WHEN HE GOES TO
ASSISTANCE OF GIRL

Ar 1:30 p. m. today, condition of Donald Pint, who was run down by a motorist last night took a sudden change for the worse. Attendants at St. Francis Hospital stated that his death at any time was feared.

A red and yellow Buick sped southeast on Fourth street west last midnight. As the car passed Byrnes park, a girl passenger, struggling with a man in the car, screamed and jumped.

Donald Pint, 204 Vine street, who was returning on a motorcycle from a trip to Des Moines, heard the scream, went to the girl's assistance.

The automobile driver, apparently thinking the motorcycle rider a policeman and wishing to avoid official interference, turned his car around in the road and ran down the man on the motorcycle.

Pint's left leg was broken in two places below the knee and he suffered a deep four-inch gash in the calf muscle. He has been in such a condition of shock since the injury that physicians at St. Francis Hospital have been unable to set the leg. His condition is such that amputation may be necessary.

The driver of the Buick left his car standing in the road and ran. When police, called by passing motorists, arrived on the scent, Pint was lying slumped alongside the road.

Police today were looking for Keith Cook, either 21 or 23 years old, five feet seven inches tall, of dark complexion and with a dark mustache.

Pint, who is 23 years old, has worked as a coach cleaner at the Illinois Central shops here for the last six years. He worked nights. In the daytime he attended Iowa State Teachers College, from which he was graduated this June.

He intended to quit his job at the shops after the next pay day, to prepare for a new position he had obtained as teacher in a school in Missouri.

Pint is a big man physically, and is known as a good fellow by hundreds of Illinois Central employees. His persistence and pluck in going to school days and working nights, many nights getting only a few hours' sleep, had occasioned much favorable comment.

Pint came here from Osage, Iowa, where his father, George Pint, now resides. His mother was killed in an automobile accident near Osage two years ago this Fourth of July.

[Waterloo Evening Courier - Monday, July 2, 1928, Waterloo, Iowa]

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#2:

LEG AMPUTATED IN LAST
EFFORT TO SAVE LIFE

Donald Pint, the 23-year-old student and railway shop workman who proved Sunday night that knights have not disappeared from this modern world, died at 1:40 a.m. today, the trampled victim of a juggernaut car from which he had sought to rescue a screaming girl.

Pint's death, which followed the amputation of his left leg in a last chance effort to save his life, means the filing of either second degree murder or manslaughter charges against Cook. County Attorney F. W. Edwards said this afternoon.

Tuesday and yesterday it was believed something could, be done when Pint suddenly took a turn for the better, showing marked improvement. This hope faded late yesterday when Pint took a turn for the worse.

Gas bacillus, the most deadly infection known to medicine, began to show itself.

The four members of Illinois Central hospital staff, no one of whom had ever seen such a case that was not fatal, found that yesterday Pint again began to lose ground. It was decided last night to amputate the limb, Pint's one chance in a million.

The operation was performed between 11 and midnight and Pint, whose condition was very weak, lost his one chance. Two hours after the amputation he died.

[Waterloo Evening Courier, Thursday, July 05, 1928, Waterloo, Iowa]
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#3:

Funeral services for Donald Pint were held this afternoon at Osage, Iowa, at 1:30 o'clock.

After mentioning Pint's war record, Rev. John D. Kern, pastor, Osage Baptist Church; also spoke of his struggle to obtain an education.

"In an hour of need," he declared, "Donald Pint" came to the rescue of a young lady and this cost him his life. Men have ever been ready to sacrifice their lives to protect a woman's virtue or their nation's honor."

Rev. Mr. Kern spoke of Pint as "living a heroic life and dying a heroic death."

[Waterloo Evening Courier - Saturday, July 07, 1928, Waterloo, Iowa]

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#4:

Burial: Osage Cemetery, Osage, Iowa
Gravestone Inscription: IOWA PVT 53 M G BATT'N
JULY 5, 1928
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#5: NOTES:

His parents were George and Charlotte "Lotta" (Fuller) Pint. Their children were:
1) Ashley A. Pint, b. Feb. 1895, d. March 11, 1911, Osage, Mitchell, Iowa. [Find A Grave Memorial # 6646369.]
2) Margie Pint, May 1897, d. unknown, USA.
3) Pvt. Donald Pint, b. Mar. 1900, d. July 5, 1928, Osage, Mitchell, Iowa. [Find A Grave Memorial # 53971996.]
4) Mable Pint, b. 1904, d. unknown, USA.
5) Helen I. Pint, b. abt 1907, d. unknown, USA.
6) Charlotte Pint, b. Feb 7, 1910, d. July 27, 1919, Osage, Mitchell, Iowa. [Find A Grave Memorial # 6646382.]
7) Louella Pint, b. 1914, d. unknown, USA.
[Research credit: Grace ONeill]
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#6: NOTES:

Sister's married names: Mrs. Charles Bowers, Osage, Mrs. Gilbert Swartzrock, Rockford, Mrs. Lee Loomis, Charles City, Mrs. Raymond Sumaker, Omaha, Nebraska.

[Obtained from his father's obit]

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Also, see link to photo of his tombstone at Osage City Cemetery, on GPP.

GPP Tombstone Photo
 

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