DEAD FROM HIS INJURY.
Special Officer L. D. Masterson
Leaped From Moving Car.
L. D. Masterson, the special officer, whose skull was fractured Friday night in Independence, Mo., in jumping from a street car in pursuit of woman prisoner, died at noon yesterday. Mr. Masterson was attending the fair in Independence, when a woman became boisterous. He placed her under arrest and started with her on a street car to the city. The woman jumped from the rapidly moving car in an effort to escape. Without stopping to think of the speed of the car Mr. Masterson followed the woman. His head struck on the curbing, fracturing his skull. The body will be taken to Stanley, Kas., for burial.
