Burned at the stake Oct 3 1895 Ohio
Courier-Journal
October 4, 1895
BURNED AT THE STAKE
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Wild West Show leads Boys to
Commit a Sensational Crime
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East Liverpool, Ohio, Oct. 3 – The six year-old son of Andrew Vandyn* was burned at the stake yesterday by five companions and so badly injured that he can not recover some man happened to see the performance and ran to the boy’s rescue, but his clothes had taken fire, and he was badly burned and the physicians say it is impossible for him to live. A Wild West Show exhibited here about a month ago, and since that time boys of the town have been “playing Indians.”