Landers, and he was accredited with earning his living by breaking or pretending to break his leg in order to collect damages for the supposed injury.
Moreover, this individual had but one leg, and was compelled to use crutches.

At the time of report he had succeeded in obtaining damages in Wichita, Kansas, for a supposed fracture.

The Review quotes a newspaper account of this operation as follows .-- "According to the Wichita Dispatch he represented himself as a telegraph operator who was to have charge of the postal telegraph office in that city as soon as the line reached there.

He remained about town for a month until he found an inviting piece of defective sidewalk, suitable for his purpose, when he stuck his crutch through the hole and fell screaming to the ground, declaring that he had broken his leg.

He was carried to a hospital, and after a week's time, during which he negotiated a compromise with the city authorities and collected $1000 damages, a confederate, claiming to be his nephew, appeared and took the wounded man away on a stretcher, saying that he was going to St.Louis.Before the train was fairly out of Wichita, Landers was laughing and boasting over his successful scheme to beat the town.