Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1909 — BOY HIT WITH BAT DIES [ARTICLE]

BOY HIT WITH BAT DIES

In Catcher's Position and by Accident Is Struck Over Heart Central Falls, R. 1., May 21.—Arthur Burroughs, nine years old, while catching in a baseball game, was killed when the bat which Earl Paine swung struck him over the heart* The boy was the son of Councilman Fred C. Burroughs, superintendent of the state printing plant