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Show KILLED BY SHELL FROM WAR Ammunition Expert Is Almost Blown to Pieces in His Own Heme at Indianapolis. Although he had gone through the World war unscathed nd had quali - u. f. fied ns an expert In handling artillery artil-lery ammunition, Frank M. Kinne, Inu'innapnlls, Ind., recently was nearly near-ly blown to pieces In his home by a three-inch shell he had brought from France. After having hav-ing served in an exhibition squad which gave dem onstrations ot how shells were unloaded unload-ed arid exploded, Kinne was unloading unload-ing his souvenir shell when the fatal accident occurred. Klnne's little home was wrecked, but his mother and sister, sleeping in an upstairs room, miraculously escaped fn.Hiry. The local post of the American Ameri-can Legion, to which the soldier had applied for membership following his recent discharge from the regular army, gave him a military burial. |