Boy Fell From Monument - 1912

Published in the Alexandria Daily Times-Tribune In October 1912

The Indianapolis Soldiers and Sailors Monument - Circa 1898

BOY FELL FROM MONUMENT

Boy Three Years Old Killed at Indianapolis This Afternoon.

U.P. Special Service

Indianapolis, Oct. 29 --James Polagrove, Jr. age 3, fell from a window in the Soldiers and Sailors monument to the ground,  a distance of 200 feet and was instantly killed.  Every bone in his body was broken.  The boy accompanied his mother to the monument and was attempting to look out of the window to the ground when he lost his balance.  The boy lived here.