Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1912 — Live Wire Kills Man. [ARTICLE]

Live Wire Kills Man.

Winchester. June 18.—In an attempt to release his father from the fatal grip of a 300-volt live wire, little Robert Addington, the five-year-old son of Charles Addington, was hurled fully fifty feet and probably fatally injured after a destructive storm had leveled many buildings in Winchester and vicinity. The elder Addington, who was forty-one years old and one of the most prominent men in Randolph county, has been dead many minutes the current was cut off and his body could be removed. The boy sustained serious burns about the head and hands and suffered injuries from the fall that may prove fatal.