Show Georgia Boy 9 Fatally Burned at the Stake During Childrens Children's Cowboy and one Indian Game COLUMBUS Ga Dec 4 UP An An old fashioned game of cowboy and Indians among among- a group of neighborhood kids ended in grim tragedy Sunday night when year old Ernest Bell was burned to death at the take stake like in the old frontier days daya From meager details obtained from the child chUd in tho the three thre hours rs before he died police reconstructed reconstruct ed the fatal game like this thI V Nixon lQ Don Bass 7 and the Bell Ben boy were whoopIng whoop- whoop Ing it up in a a. game o of cowboy 1 and Indians Indians when one of the lads lads no no one remembers which one decided that Cowboy Ernic Er Er Ernie rile nie should be captured by the Indians Indians In diane and tied to a tree to be burned the kids struck a match and somehow Ernies Ernie's clothing caught aught fire fire flames flames fl flashing all aU about him A k passerby Jack King 16 hopped ped off his bike cut cut E Ernie i loose and be beat t out the blaze with his hands Doctors said Ernie apparently had seared his lungs in swallowing swallowing swallow swallow- ing flames His body was charred with witti the tho exception of the face tace and practically all his clothing was burned away although the tho boys said aid no inflammables were used Mrs Mra Leonard B Bell said the boys boy's father was in the navy and that other son was in theair the theair theair air corps |