Last month the motor truck in which 739-lb. "Happy Jack" Eckert lived, traveled and displayed himself as a freak of nature collided with a freight truck at Flomaton, Ala. Ten men succeeded in carrying Happy Jack into a hospital and placing him on two beds lashed together.
There a fortnight ago Jack died of fractured ribs and internal injuries.
Promptly the dead monster's manager offered the body to famed Tulane University in New Orleans, "because Jack always wished some school be given the opportunity to study his glandular system."* The surviving next...
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