Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-07-02 | Page 12 | Brave Youth Dies of Ghastly Burns

BRAVE YOUTH DIES OF GHASTLY BURNS PORT CHESTBR, W. Y.. July 1. "I did It because I didn't want the fellows fel-lows to think me ;.el!uw " Fourteen-year-old Thomas Murray smiled bravely as he uttered those words Just before he died Friday of ghastly burns Tie was speaking to his ! father, seatef beside the hospital cot, Wednesday nlsht the boy was play-Injc play-Injc stump the leader " The leader climbed a steel signal tower on the New llav'fti tracks. Murray followed half way and then stopped. "Come on. Don't be yellow." cried the leader. Stun by the taunt the boy climbed ud to tho platform. "Do thi9 if you can." he called to his fellows, and bent perilously over the edge of the platform plat-form Accidentally he touched a high tension ten-sion electric wire, wa hurled back onto the platform and his clothes set afire For two days he lay unconscious unconsci-ous In the hospital Then a moment of clear thought, his explanation to his father, and tho end