New Albany (IN) Evening Tribune, October 18, 1895, p. 4. A NEEDLE Drawn from the Leg of City Treasurer Jacob Best's Two-Year-Old Son, Morris This morning Dr. Garey removed a corroded needle from the left leg of Morris, the 2-year-old son of City Treasurer Jacob Best, East Spring Street. It is thought the needle had been in his system for the past six months. For several days the boy has been peevish and complained of a pain in his leg where a small lump was noticed. This morning Mrs. Best was dressing the boy and, in drawing on his stocking, felt the sharp point of some object. She looked closely at the lump and saw the point of a needle protruding from the flesh. Dr. Garey was called and with the aid of instruments removed the piece of steel that was nearly two inches long. How it got into the flesh is not known. Last spring the boy complained a great deal and the hard lump formed on his leg, and it is thought he swallowed the needle and that it has been working its way out, as many cases of this kind have been reported.