On February 14, 1929, two lumbermen, H. L. Rendleman and Henry Jackson (name sometimes given as Johnson), got into a dispute at the Egyptian Tie and Lumber Company 17 miles east of Eminence near Owl's Bend, where they both worked. Jackson ended up hacking Rendleman with a timber axe, almost completely cutting off the victim's arm. Rendleman was taken to Christa Hogan Hospital in West Plains in a dangerous condition. The bone was completely severed, and the arm was barely still attached. It was thought the arm might have to be amputated.
Jackson was charged with mayhem and released on bond.
Three weeks later, though, Rendleman was released from the hospital and on his way to recovery. Surgeons at the hospital had set the bone and reattached the severed parts of the arm, and it was "healing nicely."
Jackson was scheduled for trial at the May 1930 term of Shannon County Circuit Court, but I can find no follow-up mention of this case. Apparently, the charge of mayhem must have been dropped or the charge got pleaded down to a misdemeanor after Rendleman recovered, because the legal definition of "mayhem" usually involves severing someone's limb or causing the person to lose complete use of the limb. That was no longer the case with Rendleman.
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