Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1896 — Singular Death. [ARTICLE]

Singular Death.

Earl Blackwood, the twelve-year-old adopted son of Clarence Blackwood, who occupies a farm about four miles from Blackwood, Pa„ came to ills death in a singular manner recently, says the (Philadelphia Ledger. He was accidentally hanged w<hlle- playing in bls father's barn. Mr. and Mrs. Blackwood took the boy to an entertainment in Philadelphia on Thursday night, and what he saw there a Pltears to have made a deep impression on his mind, as ho talked about it a great deal the next day, and it is thought that he came to his death while trying to repeat some of the circus feats tilint he had witnessed. Before he went into the barn he told his 'mother he would be buck In a short time and help her to perform some household duties. Home time afterwards a boy living in the neighborhood went into the barn and was horrified by the sight .of young Blackwood suspended at the end of a rope which was fastened to a beam overhead. He raised an alarm, and the body was cut down immediately, but ail attempts at resuscitation were unavailing. The rope from which the boy was suspended was a plough line, with n loop at each end. He had evidently fastened one end of the rope to the beam overhead, and then passing hit* head through the loop at the other end had strangled himself.