Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1909 — KILLED BY BATTLE RELIC [ARTICLE]

KILLED BY BATTLE RELIC

Shell Picked Up on Field at Atlanta Mortally Hurts Boy. Atlanta, Ga., April 9. —While playing with an old cannon shell in the yard of his father’s home, Wayne Hightower, ten years of age, was killed when the shell exploded. Ing Bowden, eighteen years old, was slightly injured. The shell was .picked up on the field where was fought the battle of Atlanta.