Elkin June 16—A sad occurrence took place Saturday afternoon about 4 o’clock two miles south of Jonesville when the little 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Robbins was burned to death.
The little fellow went into the tobacco barn near the home, in which was a lot of straw and shucks. It is supposed that he had some matches and set fire to the straw, which burned so rapidly that escape through the door was cut off and he climbed to the platform above. When his mother and neighbors saw the flames and heard the screams they rushed to the building and succeeded in getting the little boy out, but he was already dead and his body was seriously burned.
From page 5 of the Danbury Report, Wednesday, June 17, 1925
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