Little Boy Dies From Lockjaw

Little Boy Dies From Lockjaw

Sunday afternoon Floyd G. Love was brought from Charlotte on the 3:30 train to the University hospital by his parents. The little fellow was suffering from lockjaw, the result of a Fourth of July accident. He was playing with a toy pistol and shot his hand. A stream of blood spurted forth, but the wound did not cause him any great inconvenience. Saturday he went to his mother and asked for one of the cookies she was baking. While eating he remarked to his mother that he could hardly get his mouth open to eat. The parents, becoming alarmed, called a physician, who pronounced the trouble lockjaw. The physician advised the parents to bring their son to the hospital at once. The disease had progressed too far before it was known that the lad was suffering. He died early this morning at the University hospital.

The boy was five years and eleven months old, the only child of his almost heartbroken parents, who will return with his remains this afternoon to their home in Charlotte.