Davis County Clipper | 1908-11-13 | Page 7 | Boy at Stake is Scorched

BOY AT STAKE IS SCORCHED three lads nearly succeed in putting dime novel villains in shade new york attempting to put all dime didie novel stories in fit the shade three yonkers youths between the ages of twelve and fourteen tied one of their chums to a telegraph post set fire to a quantity of newspapers and were about to burn him at the stake F francis kolly kelly 12 years old was passing through engino place in the rear of fire headquarters when his three friends frienda pounced upon him and rushed him to the telegraph pole while the two held him the third tied him to the post A quantity of newspapers was placed under hla his feet and between his body and the post tho the youths had just set a match to the newspapers when officer Kruppenbach er was waa attracted by kellys screams lie ile unfastened kelly whose stockings had already been set afire ile he told the police who the lads were kellys mother will swear out wal warrants wars rants nta for their arrest after lighting the fire the boy said they ran off