N&W in 1911--Boy hurt

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
April  20, 1911

THE GRAHAM DAILY NEWS
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BOY BADLY HURT
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Hit in Mouth With Rock Thrown From Moving Train
    Oscar, the twelve-year-old son of Charlie Byrd, who lives just east of Falls Mills, was hit in the mouth and badly injured yesterday afternoon by some one who threw a stone at him from a passing freight train.  Bill Burton, Will Heldreth, Jessie Slaughter and Ellis Caudill, all west Graham boys, were arrested, charged with being implicated.  A 'phone message from the agent at Falls Mills to the operator at Graham told of the cowardly deed and the boys were in custody in less than a half hour.  Operator Haun, at Bluestone, caught the Burton and Heldreth boys and the other two were taken by Graham officers.  The two latter left the westbound freight at Bluestone and rode back to Graham on an eastbound train.  Slaughter and Caudill made statements accusing the Burton boy with having thrown the rock.  The little Byrd boy was holding one of his father's horses when hit, and was rendered unconscious for a time.  His father, who was with the team, saw his son fall.  Mr. Byrd hastened to Falls Mills to report the occurrence to the agent there.  He later came to Graham to swear out a warrant before Squire Bruce, for the boy who had injured his little son without any provocation whatever, and is determined to prosecute the guilty party to the full extent of the law.
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Gordon Hamilton
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