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A Boy Accidentally Garroted And Killed. In St. Louis, on Friday last, a lad seventeen years of age, while at work in a rope manufactory, with a quantity of hemp around his neck, incautiously approached a revolving shaft, when the hemp was caught in the shaft and wound around it, strangling the poor boy and dragging him several times around the shaft before it could be stopped. He was horribly mangled, and the head enormously swollen. The agony of the bereaved mother was most touching and distressing to witness. Her bitter heart-breaking sobs were mingled with wild exclamations of ‘"My boy! my boy! who left me this morning whistling!"’
The Daily Dispatch: April 18, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. April 18, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
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