N&W in 1911--Boy hurt

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
April  20, 1911

THE GRAHAM DAILY NEWS
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BOY BADLY HURT
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Hit in Mouth With Rock Thrown >From Moving Train
    Oscar, the twelve-year-old son of Charlie Byrd, who lives just east of Falls 
Mills, was hit in the mouth and badly injured yesterday afternoon by some one 
who threw a stone at him from a passing freight train.  Bill Burton, Will 
Heldreth, Jessie Slaughter and Ellis Caudill, all west Graham boys, were 
arrested, charged with being implicated.  A 'phone message from the agent at 
Falls Mills to the operator at Graham told of the cowardly deed and the boys 
were in custody in less than a half hour.  Operator Haun, at Bluestone, caught 
the Burton and Heldreth boys and the other two were taken by Graham officers.  
The two latter left the westbound freight at Bluestone and rode back to Graham 
on an eastbound train.  Slaughter and Caudill made statements accusing the 
Burton boy with having thrown the rock.  The little Byrd boy was holding one of 
his father's horses when hit, and was rendered unconscious for a time.  His 
father, who was with the team, saw his son fall.  Mr. Byrd hastened to Falls 
Mills to report the occurrence to the agent there.  He later came to Graham to 
swear out a warrant before Squire Bruce, for the boy who had injured his little 
son without any provocation whatever, and is determined to prosecute the guilty 
party to the full extent of the law.
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Gordon Hamilton
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