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- Lena Stone Criswell           

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Sixty-Second Year - Number 159
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, October 18, 1962

GRID PLAYER AT WEST
DIES IN FENCE MISHAP

CORSICANA (AP) -- A football played died at West in Central Texas following a high school game Wednesday night when he leaned against a wire fence which surrounded the playing field.

Witnesses said the fence appeared to be charged with electricity.

The youth was a 17-year-old negro, Charles T. Vernon, a senior at G. W. Carver High School in Dawson.

The body was taken to Calhoun Funeral in Corsicana, where a spokesman gave this account which he said had been obtained from witnesses.

The Vernon boy, his football uniform damp, leaned against the fence.  When he touched the fence he groaned and seemed to be held fast.  Two other persons tried to pull him free and received what they thought were strong electrical shocks.

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